2022 "seizing" on rectangles, doors, slabs, and extrudes

[Ian Olsen]

I am having an issue in VW on my 2021 M1 Max Macbook Pro with 32GB of ram on my company's license. I am drawing a series of floor plans on PDFs using the wall tool, primarily. Every time I need to draw a rectangle, grab a new door, or use the slab tool the program thinks about it for 30 seconds to a minute. This persists through restarting the program as well as my machine and is independent of any other programs I have open or closed. Any tips on eliminating this thinking time? Or what causes it? I am pulling out my hair. Thanks. 

[michaelk]

I've seen this before when drawing on top pdfs where the pdf was the problem.  (In fact, I just had the problem yesterday.)

 

Try this:  

Make a copy of the file.  

On each PDF:  Select the PDF > Modify > Ungroup > agree to the scary warning.

This usually breaks the pdf into 3 parts.  The top part is a bit map.  Keep that.  Below that is a rectangle.  Throw that away.  Below that may or may not be a group containing vector objects (Lines and arcs, etc).  In my experience, when PDFs go bad the last part is the problem.  Throw that away.

 

You won't be able to snap to geometry in the PDF anymore, but you will be able to work :-).

 

I don't understand why it's happening or how the pdf got that way, but I've had pdfs that seem to use ALL the ram.

[Ian Olsen]

Thank you for the suggestion, these PDFs turned out to be already ungrouped, so this is not the solve 😞 . 

[Ian Olsen]

As I work more, I believe this is related to the size and resolution of the PDFs I'm working on. Is there a way I could get VW to pause parsing the PDF data? Or a setting I can check that might allow VW to treat the PDF as like a preview?