wma Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hi, We've been using VW2008 for a little while now (we were on 11 before) and I am finding that when I set up a drawing with several viewports on one sheet layer, it is quite slow to redraw everything when I move in and out of the sheet layer. For example, if I double-click on the viewport and go into the design layer, then use the "Return to Viewport" yellow button in the top RH corner, it returns me to the sheet layer but it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to redraw everything on the screen before I can do anything. Same if I go in to edit annotations and then come back to the sheet layout. This might seem like a minor thing but it becomes quite irritating at the stage where I'm getting a layout set up on a page and I need to do lots of little changes to things in different viewports. Does anyone else have this problem or is there anything I can do about it? I'm on a Mac: OS 10.4.11 Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Your computer is getting a little old. 1.5GB of ram is not much these days, your video card may be the cause too. Quote Link to comment
wma Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hmmm. Maybe I need to have a word with the boss... Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Considering your symptoms, a new computer wouldn't take long to pay for itself. Quote Link to comment
wma Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Is there any way of finding out whether it's a video card or RAM issue? Other than buying both and trying them out? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Not that I know of. Memory is pretty cheap. Quote Link to comment
IanH Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just out of curiosity, if you scroll around the viewport does it chug? If so, try pressing the escape key - when I do that, everything responds much faster. Curious as to why - it may be because hitting escape stops a full redraw, but in all cases that I have done this, the redraw of the visible screen has been complete at this stage. Quote Link to comment
wma Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just out of curiosity, if you scroll around the viewport does it chug? If so, try pressing the escape key - when I do that, everything responds much faster. Curious as to why - it may be because hitting escape stops a full redraw, but in all cases that I have done this, the redraw of the visible screen has been complete at this stage. I'm not quite sure what you mean... do you mean moving around the sheet layer (with several viewports on it)? There are no scroll bars so if I move around I tend to use the pan tool (the little hand tool). Do you mean holding escape down, or pressing it while the screen is redrawing? Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 This should all be better if NNA let all viewport redraw when the user clics update and not by themselves. Just keep the image and draw that white-red border around it and when all vp are in place, let the user click update. This will help speed up making sheets. Quote Link to comment
ffonics Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I am having issues with vp s in worksheets slowing down to the point of inactivity when I try and select the vp and either update it or try to get to annotation mode. It happens after I've been in VW for a little while. After I quit VW and reopen, the problem seems fixed for a while. I think it may be an issue with the vp cache. any thoughts. thanks Quote Link to comment
ffonics Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 also, I forgot to mention that Im using 2009 architect [updated signature] and that the issue above was not a problem in 2008 [drawing files were all batch updated for working in 2009] Quote Link to comment
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