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Yes, you CAN run SpotLight on a machine with those specs. They were the specs of my machine I tested it on. Yes, it is not the fastest due to the amount of intelligence each object tries to have. Some things to help increase speed- turn off layers and classes you don't need, especially the label classes. I found it also helped to put my different systems of lighting into separate classes. i.e. I had a front class, back, specials, etc. so that I could turn off the ones I wasn't currently working on. I think you will find these little tricks will significantly increase your speed and redraw time.

HTH

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Kacey Fisher

Quality Assurance Specialist

Integrated Products Group

Nemetschek North America

kacey1@nemetschek.net

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Kacey,

What are you running it on??

I am working on a Celeron 366 192MG ram, 30 Gig hard drive at home and a new Dell PIII 128mg Ram 20 gig hard drive at work.

I just started a new test plot at home. I have 4 electrics with 25 units on each and it is already slowing down. I zoomed in on 4 units on one electric and tried to scrool down the electric. Clicking and holding on the right scrool arrow,40 seconds later it had moved 6 units down the electric. There is no way I can see this program will run acceptably on anything less than a Pentium III and even then my PIII at work is still slower than my PI 200 on my laptop with VW 8.5

Somehow I don't understand what advantage these new insturments have if they make the program so slow and force people to have to buy new computers.

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Kacey,

Can you explain the process you use setting different classes for different instrument systems. The manual doesn't explain it

clearly. Can you do it after the plot is created?

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I also did a test- export data to LW - it took 1 min 10 sec to complete the export process on 108 units.

On a plot of 182 units 3:05

My average plot is around 300 units so extrapolated that is around 5 min to export the data to LW everytime I do it. 8-10 times per plot adds up to 40-50 min wasted. As a designer that puts out an average of a plot every 2 weeks on top of everything else I do, that is a really long time to waste waiting. I don't know what your criteria is for acceptable speed of execution is, but it isn't acceptable for me.

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Originally posted by jtallen:

Kacey,

What are you running it on??

I am working on a Celeron 366 192MG ram, 30 Gig hard drive at home and a new Dell PIII 128mg Ram 20 gig hard drive at work.

I just started a new test plot at home. I have 4 electrics with 25 units on each and it is already slowing down. I zoomed in on 4 units on one electric and tried to scrool down the electric. Clicking and holding on the right scrool arrow,40 seconds later it had moved 6 units down the electric. There is no way I can see this program will run acceptably on anything less than a Pentium III and even then my PIII at work is still slower than my PI 200 on my laptop with VW 8.5

Somehow I don't understand what advantage these new insturments have if they make the program so slow and force people to have to buy new computers.

I was running it on a Pentium Pro 200 MHZ with 64 mb of ram and was not seeing the kind of speed problems you are talking about. Yes it was not the fastest, but not that slow. I'm wondering if there is something else in your file that may be slowing it down. Do you have a lot of 3d information? Any nurbs curves etc?

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Kacey Fisher

Quality Assurance Specialist

Integrated Products Group

Nemetschek North America

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quote:

Originally posted by jtallen:

Kacey,

Can you explain the process you use setting different classes for different instrument systems. The manual doesn't explain it

clearly. Can you do it after the plot is created?

PS

I also did a test- export data to LW - it took 1 min 10 sec to complete the export process on 108 units.

On a plot of 182 units 3:05

My average plot is around 300 units so extrapolated that is around 5 min to export the data to LW everytime I do it. 8-10 times per plot adds up to 40-50 min wasted. As a designer that puts out an average of a plot every 2 weeks on top of everything else I do, that is a really long time to waste waiting. I don't know what your criteria is for acceptable speed of execution is, but it isn't acceptable for me.


Yes, you can do it after the plot is created. All you need to do is create a class called Front, Back etc. Then you need to assign the instruments to that class. You can do that by selecting all the units in one system and using the class drop-down on the OI pallette. You can also use the Find and Modify command and select instruments on a certain pipe etc., and then change the class to Front. That way you can turn individual classes on and off.

The import command in version 9 is much faster. There was some code that was refined to make it faster from 8.5.2 so you should see a marked improvement between the two versions.

HTH

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Kacey Fisher

Quality Assurance Specialist

Integrated Products Group

Nemetschek North America

[This message has been edited by kacey1 (edited 08-13-2001).]

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Originally posted by jtallen:

According to the manual you can run SP 8.5 or 9 on any machine that has a Pentium or higher and 92 mg ram. I have a Celeron 366 with 192 mg ram, windows 98 and it runs like a 64 Volkswagon.

Why?

Everytime I move an instrument or do anything it is 5-6 seconds of redraw time.

Check out SpotLight 9.5.b5 public beta. Redraw times for lighting instruments have been dramatically improved.

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