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Mike
Lots of people are of the opinion that AutoCAD 2009 is about as memory-watertight as a rusty sieve with a hole punched in it, and it’s certainly a major RAM hog, so it was interesting to read this:
First open your Task Manager… switch to Processes and sort by Mem Usage.Then open a large drawing in AutoCAD 2009 (any flavor).. choosing one with several viewports make it even more interesting.Once opened.. Minimize the complete AutoCAD session window (not just the drawing).
ACAD Memory Usage drops almost 90% once the window is minimized.
Now Reopen the minimized AutoCAD window and the memory returns to a workable level.
The ACAD memory still does a serious memory ramp up during any saving function which is still a problem for us.This technique seems useful in reclaiming or resetting AutoCAD’s memory usage without restarting.
From here: http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=702176&tstart=0
Ever since installing (finally) Civil 3D and beginning to put it to use, I’ve had this problem with my Vault toolbar disappearing on me. It’s the weirdest thing. When Civil is loading up, I could see it on the screen, but as soon as the load finished and I was presented with the crosshairs, it would just disappear.
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the Vault client a couple times, and done numerous Google searches for a solution and could find nothing. Today I figured it out.
What worked for me was to go into the CUI and edit the current Workspace. Drill down into toolbars and select the one for Vault (which was already checked on). On the lower right, you’ll see a box where you can change the location in which the toolbar is docked. Mine was set to floating, and I changed it to simply Top. Apply and OK and once I was back at the crosshairs the toolbar was there!
Hope this works for you as well.
Today we will be updating the blog to Wordpress 2.5, so if you see anything that looks squirrely, please bear with us. I’m sure this will screw something up, at least temporarily. You can leave a comment under this post if you want to report a problem or discovered bug. Hopefully this will be pretty painless.
Oh yeah, we’ve added 3 new authors to the lineup, so maybe the pace of new content will pick up somewhat. I’ll let them introduce themselves.
- Mike
A couple of things that would be really nice to see added to Autocad at some point. The first is one I’ve entered into the AUGI Wishlist for a few years now, and the second is one that just dawned on me the other day. Both seem useful. Let me know if I’m just crazy or overlooking some functionality already in there.
I’d lilke to be able to toggle on/off seeing the list of layouts in the Page Setup Manager. About 95% of the time I KNOW what setup my layouts have, because they’re set in my template, but when I want to print using a different setup (e.g. half-size, pdf, etc.), I hate having to scroll past 25 layout items to get to the loaded setups. Having toggle there to quickly hide those would be swell.
