ARRRRGGGGG ... help!

[justintime1]

Hi there folks.

 

 

GRRRR…

 

Your help on this would be hugely appreciated.

 

I’m worried sick trying to get a pease of unvericy work done in time for my final year and I’m coming up against loads of thecnical problems with I could really do with out.

 

The biggest of which is as follows.

 

I have a site plan striped right to the bear bones in CAD. The file amounts to only about 137kb.

 

I import it into 3d max no problem. I start to work on it and again no problem ..

 

But then after about five minutes and half a dozen splines having been traced over it it slows to a crawl.

 

I check the task bar and its not responding. The memory usage is fluctuating for way down low to up in the million ..?

 

I have a brand new dell dual cor with 2 gig and a 3 gig switch flipped.

 

The Max file its self is only about 1 Mb .

 

I have other files that I’m working on that are 20 / 25 mb and are fine.

 

If anyone has any idea what I might be doing wrong then please give me a shout .

 

I’m going to end up with no hair left at this rate.

 

Many thanks

 

Matt

 

Im using max 8 , by the way.

 

Cheers

[Tommy L]

If you have it file-linked and there are hatches, it may be that the object snap is trying to snap to millions of vertices in the hatch. Can you zip the files and upload? I will take a (really) quick peek at it if you want. What version of Max? I have Max8.

 

Or email me it

thomaslivings@gmail.com

[justintime1]

cheers bud, ill up load it if i can.

 

two secs

 

 

matt

[Justin Hunt]

Even with really clean CAD files , Max can grind to a hault when snapping with "End Point", rather use "Vertex".

 

JHV

[justintime1]

Hi there.

 

Cheers for the suggestions.

 

I am using vertex and still the problem persists, I’ve brought the file into work and it appears to be fine on my works machine.

 

I’m going to try and model what I can here and then take it home without the DWG in the file and see if I can work on it then.

 

Oddly all my other MaX files seam to be fine on my home computer! Some of which are far bigger.

 

And more suggestions are very welcome.

 

Cheers

 

Matt.

[Trevor Tizard]

I have found that almost any drawing I file link runs like an asthmatic snail. Thus I always import the file having first moved it to 0,0 in AutoCAD. Seems to work much better.

[only3d]

if all u need is jst tracing contours and such then maybe u can use just a bitmap of your acad file..

print a jpeg or whatever u wish from acad and import it to your max as a map or better yet straight to your background.

this has some faults but much better than "spitting blood" over your work...