Good day
I've noticed that some processes within MicroStation CONNECT (and thus, by extension, ORD) are still single-processor tasks. Amongst others, corridor processing, creating of drawings from named boundaries, element and model annotation, and plotting of PDFs from a pset file.
Is there a plan to redesign these processes to take advantage of all CPU cores? Even on a machine with the latest CPU, best GPU, SSD, and oodles of RAM, annotating cross-sections is unbearably slow. In the screenshot below, I'm running the Model Annotation tool, and it's evident that ORD is only using 1 out of my 6 cores. My previous machine had 8 slightly slower cores, which made things even worse.
Kind Regards
Processing Surveys with VBA Macros for Annotation is also painfully slow. I have not looked at processor usage, but I suspect it is no different than you are experiencing.
This needs to be addressed. Currently, a survey in InRoads V8i processes faster than it does in ORD.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration