Slowdown in Drawing With Many Layout Tabs

Philip Craven

 Let me first point out the slowdown I will describe is occurring on a several years old core2duo notebook, but the PC is nearly always still a surprisingly good performer so I prefer not to replace it yet. I have a drawing with 18 layout tabs plus of course the model tab. I noticed as I added the last few tabs it was taking more time to switch between tabs. It seems to take longer to switch from the 18th tab to the model tab than from the first few tabs. The tab switching slowdown is enough to be a bit of a bother but all other BricsCAD operations in this (for me) rather large drawing remain speedy as always.

Has anyone else had this experience? Can you offer suggestions to speed things up?

The only thing I can think of is to break the drawing up into several files. One file would be the master copy of any and all model space geometry. Other files would reference (XREF) the model file and contain layouts, more "satellite" files added as needed to keep the number of layout tabs in any one of them small enough for good tab switching performance.

Please let me know if you think there is something else I should try.

Thanks!

-Phil

Alexander Van Heuverzwyn

I can't tell if there's a potential optimization issue here but I would start by trying out both CACHELAYOUT on and off.