Progress bar v5 A.06

[ken.dowling]

Reading a 33k+ record file produced by Arcv2CAD 4.5, and after 35 minutes I aborted it. System showed nearly 100% processor usage during that time (confirmed by my laptop fan running at full blast) and there was regular disk activity.

But I had no way of telling whether real work was going on as there is no progress bar.

I see from a posting in 2005? that there used to be a progress bar and I feel that would be helpful.

Or is it that CADViewer didn't even make it to the point where it could get the data necessary for a progress bar?

Regards
Ken

[GuthCAD Software Support]

Hi Ken,

Just realized that I did not read you post closely enough. A drawing with 33,000 records, obviously is going to be a very large drawing. What is the file size?

thanks
Paul G



Hi Ken,

There should be no problem reading a 33k file. It should read almost instantaneously. If it is a 33MB file then it may be a different story. If the drawing is AutoCAD 2004+ format then CAD Viewer does some initial work prior to the progress bar appearing. This should still be less than 30 seconds. (I just tried a 35MB file here and it completely loaded in 30 seconds.) However...

A known situation that can cause a severe slowdown is if a large drawing consists of point marker blocks with multiple attributes attached. This will cause a big slowdown in both CAD Viewer and AutoCAD, and for a such a file at 35MB it may not even load in either software. There are strategies to take in such a situation, but we should probably first of all establish what type of data you have there.

best regards
Software Support

[ken.dowling]

Hi Paul

DXF file size ex Arcv2CAD using Autocad rls 14 as the output style, is 95MB.

OCAD reads the file just fine. So I can use the file OK. Just a nuisance not being able to quickly view the result of Arcv2CAD.

I can't create the DXF file as Autocad 2004+ as Arcv2CAD just gets to 80% progress and sits there.

Regards
Ken