Plotmaker 9 Link Updating Speed (Very Slow)

[Anonymous]

From: BrianB
To: BrianB
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:08 pm
I've been having a problem with how long it takes Plotmaker 9 to update linked files. It will often take a few minutes for Plotmaker to find and open a file for updating. I'm currently using ArchiCAD 9 with a central master library which is based on a server along with the project files. There is currently only 3 computers using our server and they all have over a 1 gig. connection. It seems like plotmaker just has a hard time locating the project files it needs to open, because once they are found and opened plotmakers updating bar goes reasonably fast. Does anyone know the hierarchy in which plotmaker looks for these file links? Or does anyone have any suggestions in how the file structure of the libraries and projects files should be set up on the server to help Plotmaker find them quicker? All of our machines currently run Windows XP and are less than a year old.

[Anonymous]

I am curious if anyone has an idea when live linking views to plotmaker becomes a problem? We have been using this method on residential project without any issues (although I do tire of how long it takes to open a "background" copy of Archicad).

[Anonymous]

One other thought - could the problems with live linked files be platform specific? I noticed that the advocates for saving out PMK's are all on MAC's.

[Anonymous]

Mike wrote:
One other thought - could the problems with live linked files be platform specific? I noticed that the advocates for saving out PMK's are all on MAC's.

now there's a point. Most of my Mac users are smaller shops and I don't get many complaints from them... maybe because most of the work is residential (that means mostly 6 -12k sf in this area).

Many of my PC users are working on larger projects but I really don't get many complaints there. Just curious, Matthew, is the firm your at now using PCs or Macs?

woodster

[Rakela Raul]

im glad im not alone