topic Re: Copy & Paste in Modeling

Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:46:20 GMT

Anyone having copy/paste slowdowns with the latest hotfix 2675? for some reason it takes over 5 minutes to copy and paste from one layout to another in one of our files and in general it takes Archicad about 5-10 seconds to perform the copy (Ctrl + C). The larger the file the longer the wait.

Any ideas?

Re: Copy & Paste

Greg Kmethy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:33:57 GMT

We had two cases recently where the large number of pen sets (in the region of hundreds) caused the slowness.

Greg

Re: Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:43:26 GMT

Greg,

We cleaned out the pen sets in our project and the file works fine now.

Thanks

Re: Copy & Paste

owen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:35:12 GMT

gkmethy wrote:
We had two cases recently where the large number of pen sets (in the region of hundreds) caused the slowness.

Greg

But how do you end up with HUNDREDS of Pen Sets in one file??!!

Surely not by intention? ArchiCAD used to have a bit of a Pen Set proliferation problem but thought that had been solved

Re: Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:36:30 GMT

good question...haven't gotten an answer to that one...Magic I guess.

Re: Copy & Paste

owen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:43:56 GMT

or maybe it hasn't been solved as i thought : (

Re: Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:58:58 GMT

owen wrote:
gkmethy wrote:
We had two cases recently where the large number of pen sets (in the region of hundreds) caused the slowness.

Greg
But how do you end up with HUNDREDS of Pen Sets in one file??!!

Surely not by intention? ArchiCAD used to have a bit of a Pen Set proliferation problem but thought that had been solved

Attribute pollution can be a problem if you do much linking and merging. It actually takes a bit of care in setting and enforcing standards to keep this to a minimum.

Re: Copy & Paste

Greg Kmethy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:53:38 GMT

There used to be a problem in ArchiCAD 11 that copy/pasting elements (like a wall) between files carried over all the pen sets from the source file. This was fixed in AC 11 and 12, but may be still a problem if you copy elements from ArchiCAD 10. I believe the many pensets may have been inherited from that era.

Greg

Re: Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:24:49 GMT

Are there any plans to correct this?

Re: Copy & Paste

Greg Kmethy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:42:46 GMT

This needs a fix in AC 10, and we are not planning another Hotfix for AC 10. Copying AC11 to AC12 or from AC 12 to AC 12 is OK, so you should not be troubled by this error anymore.

Greg

Re: Copy & Paste

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:47:50 GMT

Unless, we are copying information from v10 or earlier that is. We do that very often at our office and I'm sure others do as well. Regardless, I think if we periodically check the attributes we should be fine.

Thanks