[solved] dwg files heavy to handle

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Philsourish
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[solved] dwg files heavy to handle

Post by Philsourish » Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:53 pm

Hello,
I receive dwg files with plans from an architectural office (which uses Vectorworks). These dwg files are terribly heavy to handle with Qcad.
Zooming, drawing lines, saving the file, ... is very painful).
The size of the file is however reasonable (1.7 Mo)

architectural plans :
PA_211220_plans.dwg
(1.66 MiB) Downloaded 258 times
I am used to working with dwg plans sometimes much heavier (5 - 10 Mb) and I don't encounter these problems.

Thank you for your advice to be able to work in a more "comfortable" way.


QCAD version: 3.27.1.0
Qt version: 5.14.2
OS: Linux
OS version: 20.04
Last edited by Philsourish on Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:05 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Husky
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Re: dwg files heavy to handle

Post by Husky » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:09 pm

Philsourish wrote:
Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:53 pm
Thank you for your advice to be able to work in a more "comfortable" way.
This drawing is heavenly loaded with hatch pattern. That cost QCAD a lot of time to render the drawing ...

Move all hatches to a new layer (Menu/Misc/Layer) and switsch that new Hatch layer to invisible. Should make it less painful to work with ... :wink:
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Re: dwg files heavy to handle

Post by CVH » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:58 am

Same story here:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... 193#p36193
Please also read the last two lines.

We've been seeing more hatches lately that are coded incorrectly.
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/i ... sk_id=2325

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CVH

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Re: [solved] dwg files heavy to handle

Post by Philsourish » Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:06 am

thank you very much for the advice
It works like a charm!

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