"Caching Graphics" slow down - it's miserable

[NickSolyom]

Hello,

I have a pretty zippy m1Max macbook pro, but I am experiencing issues in v2023 and v2024 when editing my viewport crops and sheet layers.

My document has 3 XREFs, and when I work my sheet layer viewports, Editing the crop, adjusting the rectangle, and exiting the crop each take several minutes.

My productivity is minimal and I am absolutely miserable working on these crops.

This is a fully 2D document.

 

Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice on improvement?

[Amanda McDermott]

Yes I'm having similar 'caching graphics' waiting when trying to do anything! Very frustrating. Are you on Mac or Windows? I suspect those of us having trouble are on Windows...

[Amanda McDermott]

Ah, never mind, notice you say you're on Mac! Maybe it's just all of us - thought I'd found the common denominator for a moment...

[jcogdell]

Viewport., VGM and Site model caching can be turned off in the dcoument settings and the VectorCaching toggle can be found in the Vectorworks preferences.
 

[NickSolyom]

I have a work around, I have moved the geometry around so I have have only the objects I actually need turned on via layers in my viewports.

 

I now have many many many layers, but I am able to edit viewport crops without the endless caching messages

[SLFY]

I had been struggling with severe slowness in one file as well. It seemed to start like a switch was flipped once the file got to a certain size or perhaps it was some other factor. However, after reading this string, I tried to disable VectorCaching in the preferences, and the difference is night and day. I can fly through this file again with no trouble.

Preferences says to turn on VectorCahcing to speed drawing with a warning that it requires more RAM...I have RAM to spare but the VectrorCaching was slowing things to the point I could catch a nap between notations in my viewports.

No idea how the caching is supposed to help, but I wish I would have thought to try to shut it off sooner.