Slow Plotting On Autocad 2005

Hi There
I´m having real troubles in my costumers with Autocad 2005.
One of them, Autocad 2005, Windows 2000 Service pack 4 and an HP Desingjet
800. The plotting is terrebly slow and the files are very big. Allready
installed the new drivers.
In the other case is an Autocad LT 2005 and an HP Desingjet 500, windows xp
service pack 1. Same problem.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Sérgio

 

what do you need to know?

 

About 30 minutes to plot a file of 5MB

all plotters have the ram that they have when they are sold

The hp desihgnjet 800 uses hpgl2

the 800 by network cable, the 500 by parallel cable. With usb cables the
problem dissapears

they dont have that option. they had had it didn´t they? I cant find that
option anymore

no
Only appens in Autocad

 

Ill have to answer thta later cause i dont know that information
Thanks for your help

 

Good job, Dean. THIS is helpful information.

 

We are also experiencing slow plotting in 2005. Drawings that used to plot
very fast in 2002 are now taking 15-20 minutes or more & generate enormous
plot files, where they previously did not. (Most of our plots are HPGL/2
sent via HDI drivers to an Oce TDS 800). I have not been able to figure out
a cause or a solution & thus far have written it off as 2005 being a slow,
bloated mess.


Jon

 

Do your drawings contain solid hatches? Starting a couple of releases ago,
these have been plotted with many more triangles to solve some visual
fidelity problems at the cost of much larger plot files. If your logo uses a
solid hatch, you might consider drawing it differently to work around this
issue.

 

Tim Scully wrote: "Starting a couple of releases ago,
[solid hatches] have been plotted with many more triangles to solve some visual fidelity problems."

Can you point me to any more information about this change? E.g. are the extra triangles only added when using a curved boundry, or would even a simple rectangle filled with a solid hatch result in a bigger plot file? Does the same thing apply to 'solid' entities? (not 3D solids, the 2D objects created with the 'Solid' command - we used to use these before solid hatching was available.)

Thanks in advance,

...Colin French

 

Me too I'm afraid.
Files that were plotting fast with adt2004 are plotting dead slow with acad 2005 on same computer. Have a top spec computer running xp-pro & server running 2003 & brand new printers (same on all 3). When I switch back to 2004 they plot straight away again. Drivers installed from the 2005 disk.
Files are mostly 2d 1mb or less with no solid hatching.
Which box haven't I ticked this time??
Help would be greatly appreciated. 2005 is really good but no use if take ages for plot to process.