AutoCAD 2004 Regen Time

[Nate Hunter]

Does anyone know if you can turn off the regen feature in AutoCAD 2004. I have a few very large drawings that take a lone time to load. They seem to open fine but the regen time takes forever.

Any ideas??

 

[Tom Berger]

Does anyone know if you can turn off the regen feature in AutoCAD 2004. I have a few very large drawings that take a lone time to load. They seem to open fine but the regen time takes forever.

Any ideas??

First you need to know that REGEN is the function that creates the display list, and that you can only view the entities which are in the display list.

Elements on frozen layers will not be written to the display list (other than elements on off-layers), and if your drawing is organized in a way that you can freeze a large portion of your drawing then REGEN times will be much faster.

Another solution is the "partial open" function in your OPEN dialog.

Tom Berger

 

[Jason Rhymes]

You can set REGENAUTO to off but you going to get an annoying dialog box all the time. Help File "Inhibits regeneration of the drawing until you use the REGEN or REGENALL command, or set REGENAUTO to on.

If you perform an action that requires a regeneration and that action is irrevocable (such as thawing layers), AutoCAD displays Regen queued on the command line.

If you perform an action that requires a regeneration and that action is revocable, AutoCAD displays the following message:

About to regen-proceed?

If you choose OK, AutoCAD regenerates the drawing. If you choose Cancel, AutoCAD cancels the last action that you performed and does not regenerate the drawing."

 

[Walt Engle]

Regenerating is reading from the hard drive and putting into memory (ram). Perhaps you need to add more ram?

 

[Tom Berger]

Regenerating is reading from the hard drive and putting into memory (ram). Perhaps you need to add more ram?

No, you are wrong!

Tom Berger

 

[C. G. Haley]

I believe if you freeze some of the layers you are not going to be using it should speed up the regens. I could be wrong though. One of my drawings is 10 meg plus. For AutoCAD that is a huge file.

CGH