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Laszlo Nagy
Thanks @Barry Kelly, I also found those old threads which none seemed to have been resolved (and slightly different I also thought).
Yes my Archicad app is set to use my dedicated Graphics card in both directly in the driver settings & the newer Windows settings.
Somehow the fans on this laptop has always been a bit noisy.
And yes the laptop seems to work hard when I switch on the Dimension Tool, which it was not doing before.
This plan view that I'm trying to dimension on is a simple Site Plan (with only the 3D mesh, Zones, a fence railing, some lines text & 2 fills).
I read further & found a clue in this reply (not searchable, the clue is in the GIF image) that a railing was identified as the cause. I tested it on my file and there we have it... hiding the layer my fence railing is on, immediately stopped the lagging of the dimension tool in my project file.
This is half of a solution at least, but brings up the next questions. We have threads about lagging dimensions going back 4+ years, some with workarounds.
- What is the permanent solution?
- What are we doing wrong (if any) that could be causing this issue?
- How do we avoid these delays?
- What seems to be the problem with the railing elements (I recall reading about "corrupted railings" somewhere in this search)?
- How can we find / identify "corrupted" elements in our project files, to eliminate / fix them?
PS: We need to dimension fences (railings), so after seeing the result from hiding the railing's Layer, I got an idea to split this simple palisade railing and test if the dimensions are fine with the Layer visible. This fence railing was +/-75m long with 6 segments. I split the one single rail into 3 and indeed, dimensions are snappy with no lagging again.
Now that this issue is narrowed down, we at least know the cause in this case and hot to avoid it.
We still might have cases where splitting railings is not ideal for modeling (especially linked railings) & more difficult than necessary to manage (ie. settings, display options, properties, expressions, etc). I hope therefor this dimension issue could be solved sometime.
I found a couple of old posts that mentions the same problem.
Here is one of them ... https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/Lag-while-dimensioning/m-p/357193
The partial solution there was to turn of certain layers, at least then they could dimension.
So you could try that, turn off everything except what you need to dimension.
Turn other layers back on to see if you can spot what causes the issue.
However that should not be necessary.
You say you specs are OK, but I hear the fans of your machine kick in when you dimension, which make me think your machine is having to work hard.
I am assuming you are using a laptop?
If so you will have a built in video card that Archicad will try to use but is possibly not powerful enough.
Go into your Windows Display settings then Graphics settings.
Set your Archicad program to use 'High Performance' settings.
I only have Archicad 26 and Windows 10 on this old laptop but you should see something similar to this.
You could also ensure your video drivers are up to date for both the built in and dedicated video cards.
Failing that I would contact support ... https://support.graphisoft.com
Barry.
- last edited by
Laszlo Nagy
Thanks @Barry Kelly, I also found those old threads which none seemed to have been resolved (and slightly different I also thought).
Yes my Archicad app is set to use my dedicated Graphics card in both directly in the driver settings & the newer Windows settings.
Somehow the fans on this laptop has always been a bit noisy.
And yes the laptop seems to work hard when I switch on the Dimension Tool, which it was not doing before.
This plan view that I'm trying to dimension on is a simple Site Plan (with only the 3D mesh, Zones, a fence railing, some lines text & 2 fills).
I read further & found a clue in this reply (not searchable, the clue is in the GIF image) that a railing was identified as the cause. I tested it on my file and there we have it... hiding the layer my fence railing is on, immediately stopped the lagging of the dimension tool in my project file.
This is half of a solution at least, but brings up the next questions. We have threads about lagging dimensions going back 4+ years, some with workarounds.
- What is the permanent solution?
- What are we doing wrong (if any) that could be causing this issue?
- How do we avoid these delays?
- What seems to be the problem with the railing elements (I recall reading about "corrupted railings" somewhere in this search)?
- How can we find / identify "corrupted" elements in our project files, to eliminate / fix them?
PS: We need to dimension fences (railings), so after seeing the result from hiding the railing's Layer, I got an idea to split this simple palisade railing and test if the dimensions are fine with the Layer visible. This fence railing was +/-75m long with 6 segments. I split the one single rail into 3 and indeed, dimensions are snappy with no lagging again.
Now that this issue is narrowed down, we at least know the cause in this case and hot to avoid it.
We still might have cases where splitting railings is not ideal for modeling (especially linked railings) & more difficult than necessary to manage (ie. settings, display options, properties, expressions, etc). I hope therefor this dimension issue could be solved sometime.
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