Plant symbols create long "hang" time

[Jean-Marc]

I've inserted about 100 or so plant symbols into a drawing, and now, the program has slowed down to a crawl, the point where I can't work on the drawing unless I shut of the plant classes. I'm running v10.0.1 on a PC (640mg ram); the drawing was originally drawn on v10.0.0. Any idea what is going on? I've encountered this problem in another document as well.

Thanks.

[Robert Anderson]

Do you mean that it takes a long time for the drawing to redraw? This should not be a problem if you have the "Enable plant style" and "draw 3D' boxes unchecked in your plants. Take a look at this and see if it improves the situation.

[Jean-Marc]

When I say the program slows down, I mean that it takes several seconds to select a symbol, many more when I want to move or delete the symbol. When I click on the symbol to select it, there's a long delay before the handles appear. It gets much worse if I try to select more than one symbol. Also, panning and moving through zones with lots of symbols becomes painfully slow.

FYI with regards to your suggestion, these symbols are not in any way linked to the plant catalogue; I placed them the old-fashion Vectorworks 8.5 way, with the place symbol tool using symbols provided in the Sitewk_Trees folder. Also, in case this makes any difference, I did edit some of the symbols.

Thanks.