Responsiveness

Hi everyone,

Am I the only one to be concerned by the very bad responsiveness of AecoSim (all versions, Connect seems even worse than SS) ?

Load time is long. OK, we can understand it. This is the same for Photoshop for example.

But drawing, modeling, typing,accessing tools,changing layers...everything is slow. Not dramatically but enough to be anoying and very unpleasant. And in our job, no pleasure = bad design.

For example, right-click one element to get his properties....2 or 3 seconds. Turn off a layer in the Level Display: 1 sec. ff you move too quick, other unwanted levels turn off too. Change from one task to another: 1 to 2 sec....Even the mouse is not fluid when you hoover on elements...

And all this is not hardware or windows related: it is the same on all our workstations even the top ones (32GB ram, SSD, GTX1080Ti,....),vanilla installs, all versions of Aecosim.

So please, take this very seriously.

Connect UI is nice (need little practice to get into) and COULD be effective but it HAS TO BE extremely fast and responsive.

I am interested to know if this feeling is shared by the community.

regards,

Xtov.

  • I was here to ask the same question concerning going back and forth when selecting file to do a task.  The old menu was instantaneous and fluid in your work.  Now I get a lag for 3-15 second back and then forth.  Award when you need to go back and forth

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  • The 'File' menu seems to take a lot of time to show up, always has since Connect.

    Windows 10 pro

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  • Hi Christophe,

    You should find ABD CONNECT Update 4 is more responsive than previous releases. We have done a lot of work to reduce performance overheads in areas like the backstage (also note that Ctrl + O and Ctrl + N offer quick routes to file Open and File New dialogs, skipping the backstage).

    We've occasionally seen the level selection behaviour you describe, but not in recent versions.

    Periodically compressing files can help with file specific performance issues. Please let us know if that helps in this case?

    Marc

  • Hi Marc,

    Sadly i already use ABD Connect Update 4.

    My main concern is not files opening or slowness with big files with multiple references. I can understand why those can become slow.

    The major problem is the lag. Small but very unpleasant. It is just like video gaming: beyond a certain level of lag you cannot play anymore.

    As i wrote before, If i draw a line in a new blank file in Aecosim in Microstation Mode (should be the lighter configuration) and right-click to get "Properties", the properties box take 10 seconds to open the first time. And maybe half a second to refresh if i change the object. So i must close this box because it slows me down when i draft. And then if i need to open it again, 10 more seconds. So basically unusable.

    Very anoying too is the lag when you select one tool: click on the line tool, start to draw...and you realize the tool was not selected (it is not a missed click, you click where you have to but the software is not responsive enough to record it). 

    Idem with the spacebar shortcut (-by the way most efficient way to access common tools-). It will be perfect if it was instant popup. But it is 0.4 or 0.5 second. You can think it is fast but no, it is not. Basic drafting become a pain. 

    I guess the problem is that there are so many powerful tools in Microstation and ABD that it becomes "a gas station" as we say in french. 

    The same applies for the software configuration. Hopefully i had your blog (looking under the bonnet) to help me set up ABD SS then ABD Connect - and i am not a computer noob.

    regards,

    xtov

  • The Properties box is always an issue, it seems it contains so much info it needs some time to collect this info.

    It's better not to keep it open, since it'll constantly gather another elements info. I just open it whenever I need it, and don't keep it open all the time.

    Windows 10 pro

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