You can improve the performance of your system and your applications in a number of ways…
You can look at options for making changes on your system, i.e. the operating system and the applications that you are running.
Specifically with AutoCAD, and verticals, you can take advantage of specific commands and system variables that can help reduce the size of your drawing files and improve the performance with some of the display-intensive features.
Preamble
Before I get into too much detail, you are likely already aware that their is a huge amount of reference material out their on various CAD web sites, knowledge and discussion forums etc. So rather than repeat this already available information, I’ll give you my take on it, and my approach to managing systems when it comes to getting the best performance out of a CAD workstation.
I appreciate all the questions that readers of this blog have sent me over the years, and hope that some of the advice has helped. Some of your questions have been related to specific applications I have used for system monitoring and optimisation and I will endeavour to shed some more light on those in this next series of articles.
I have written a number of articles and guides related to system performance over the years, some for specific company publications as well as others for training and consulting activities. With the continual release of new operating system versions, and CAD application versions, it is sometimes difficult to keep up, particularly when busy in other areas.
So I am going to adopt my typical approach to this… I am going to break it up into smaller more manageable “chunks”, an approach adopted for much of what I do (the “how do you eat an elephant?” approach).
In addition, please also note…
I don’t write these articles because I have way too much time on my hands! If something appears on this blog it has generally been driven by a need from day-to-day activities. At the same time, as I continue to work in the area of CAD, GIS and IT resource management, I provide ongoing guidance on some facet of this business and I tend to record much (more likely all) of what I do, and the advice I give, in written form, so that I can refer to it later, and at some point share it further.
…and that is exactly what is happening here, I am reviewing previous articles, publications, training notes etc. to provide an updated article on the performance issues faced with the latest versions of Autodesk applications and the systems that we use to run them.
…in addition, I will shed some light on the approach I have adopted for managing this information, in fact all information that I need to refer to, so here goes…
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