Toolpalette performance - Over the Network
I have received a number of questions recently regarding poor performance of Enterprise Toolpalettes, there are a few things to take into account when deploying Toolpalettes over the network, the main thing to consider is the general performance of the network. If you are running your CAD Workstations on slow network connections, or a network with a lot of traffic, then your AutoCAD performance will suffer in general. But if that's not the case, here's a few things to consider with respect to your Toolpalettes...
- Usability of the Toolpalettes themselves, with large numbers of tools/blocks on your Toolpalette, your users may need to spend some time scrolling down the contents to find the required tool/block.
- Network performance: with Toolpalettes stored on the network, particularly if the Toolpalette has a large number of tools/blocks, AutoCAD needs to retrieve all the Toolpalette info/images for display.
- Network performance again: when selecting a block from the Toolpalette, AutoCAD needs to retrieve the required block from your block library drawing, and this can be slowed further if the block library drawing file is large and/or contains a large number of blocks.
As a guide...
Try to create Toolpalettes where your users don’t need to scroll at all, this is difficult sometimes I know, but try to minimize scrolling where you can.
With block libraries, try to maintain the block library drawings as small and clean as possible (purge out unnecessary information), and where possible (and logical) as these libraries grow, separate them into smaller sub-group drawings.
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