CONNECT SPEED - Users are STOP using CE

BENTLEY... URGENT URGENT URGENT

This has been raised many times by many people in this forum, including myself

We are now at CE9 and this is STILL AN ISSUE

I have many clients that I am trying to get to use CONNECT....  

They are ALL saying........

WE CANNOT USE CONNECT because it is SO SO SO SO SLOW.  Their same files in V8i are super fast.

  • CE opening times are a horendous
  • File Navigation is a horendous

If you compare CE to V8i... users will opt for V8i every time, V8i is literally is a fraction of time.  User cannot and will not wait for 2-5 minutes to open the software, they will not wait to open another dgn file.  So not matter how hard we try to convince them CE is the way forward... they simply say NO.

THIS IS NOW A CRITICAL ISSUE and BENTLEY you seriously need to get this FIXED ASAP. 

As I mentioned we are now at CE9 and this issue is still present.........its beyond a joke.

In my opinion... stop working on anything else and get the speed issue fixed or you will not have any users left to use it.  Its only a matter of time before you lose them and they start using ACAD!!!!!!!

PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THIS>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Well, let's hope for the best... :-)

  • Very soon... CE11 will be out and I am led to believe this is much faster.  Each build Bentley are working on the performance issues

  • I just upgraded from Powerdraft CE7 to CE10 yesterday and it seems quite stable, no hiccups found yet - even some things I asked for were changed. And it didn't delete my user profile which all previous updates did. So far, so good.

    BUT at times I find it even slower than CE7 when it comes to handling a substantial amout of elements. In my case I had to assign about 60k elements to a certain level. So I selected these with a rectangular area - and waited 15 seconds to be able to do the next step. I then noticed I had selected one element too much and unselected this - and waited another 15 seconds. Then I assigned the new level to these elements - and guess what? I waited another 15 seconds for my computer to perform this operation. Just out of curiosity I did the same in PD V8i SS4 and got exactly the same work done within less than 3 seconds on the same machine. Win7 Pro 64 bit.

    I had to perform this task in 40 drawings, so it took me 2*15*40 = 1200 seconds = 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes altogether.

    That is not only slow, that's sluggish. PLEASE work on performance, Bentley!

    EDIT: I had the element information window open in the background, that's why it took ages. Without that window everything is fine. Sorry, my fault.

  • These tips call for a new thread. They'll get buried here and many people won't see them.

    I'm going to create a new thread to get the discussion started.

    Rod Wing
    Senior Systems Analyst

  • Great tip the online help is soooo slow. Also in the connect advisor settings stop that loading on startup too.