AutoCAD 2004 Regen Time

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

 

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."

 

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

 

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