Hi David,

so there are limitations with stardraw and big/imported Autocad files. Isn`t there an other way in stardraw to let work a bit faster without turning the layers off?  I contacted the customer and he isnt`s satisfied with the solution to turn off layers. I think he needs software (other than stardraw) to get the job done, Unless the will be an update that resolves this problem. Can you tell if there will an other sollution soon?

Greetz,

Jordi

There are no limitations built into Stardraw and it can import huge AutoCAD files as shown by your customers example: The file has nearly 600,000 entities such as lines, circles, text etc. etc. on 180 Layers. It imports this file very well and draws them very quickly.

The question is, how can your customer improve the speed at which he works on the drawing?

There really are only 2 possible solutions:

1. Decrease the size of the file by either deleting unused entities or temporarily turn some layers off that he isn't working on.

2. Increase the speed of his machine by getting a faster processor, faster graphics card or more memory.

Stardraw really has been optimized to draw very, very quickly and there is not going to be a major update soon that will make drawing an order of magnitude faster.

To be honest, we have had no-one else report any problems of Stardraw being slow and if he tried loading up his file in any other piece of software, he will experience exactly the same if not much worse problems.

David Snipp
Stardraw.com Ltd

ok, he can`t delete any unused entities because when he`s finished with drawing he exports the file back to Dwg and send it back to the company that sended the original (imported dwg file). But David isn`t a HP XW4400 with 2GB memory an Intel Duo Core 2 Ghz Processor and a ATI  X1950 -  256 DDR3 memory not enough. What kind of specifications do I need then. What can you recommend me/the customer. I`m srry to be a pain in the ***.. i can`t help it the customer needs help..

Thnx

Jordi

The problem here is that the problem itself is subjective; "I want to it faster".

One very simple way to make it faster is by turning the layers that he doesn't need off but for some reason your customer doesn't want to do this.

I'd be very interested to hear what other software he thinks he will be able to use that will run "faster" on his machine.

David Snipp
Stardraw.com Ltd