Qcad slowing down

[lesthegringo]

Hi all, from yesterday to today I note that now when I select something, or click on a command, or am trying to snap to grid that it is taking three or four seconds for that action to complete. I have not installed anything new, and the usual suspect of a windows update was also not coincident with this.

I've restarted the PC a couple of times to see if it is something to do with cache files or what-have-you to no avail. No other programs seem to be affected, everything else is normal. For info, it is Win 10 on an i7 with 16GB Ram running a GTX1060 GPU

The file I am working on is complex, and is approaching 2mb however this is by no means the biggest .dxf file I've worked on in Qcad

Any ideas?

Cheers

Les

[CVH]

Les,

For that we need to inspect the concerning DXF file.

There are things that may slow down QCAD and when use extensively QCAD may start lagging beyond the workable.
For several things there is a work-around and others can be fixed.

In the end there is a limit in what QCAD can handle.

Regards,
CVH

[lesthegringo]

Apologies for not seeing this last night

This is the file I'm working on, if it is due to the file becoming too complex I will split it out

Cheers

Les

[Husky]

Hi Les - thanks for the file.

This is the file I'm working on, if it is due to the file becoming too complex I will split it out

No need to split the file - the file looks good! It contains nothing what will slow down the QCAD performance! Tested on a Win10/64, i5, 16 GB RAM. With all layer visible - fast like hell.

[lesthegringo]

Ok, thanks for checking it - I wonder what's going on with my Qcad then?

Maybe uninstall and reinstall?

Les

[Husky]

Maybe uninstall and reinstall?

It's worth a try ...

1. Reset QCAD to default settings:
https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-resetting- ... figuration
Test if that solved the problem. If not ...

2. De-install / reinstall QCAD with a fresh downloaded version according to your OS
https://www.qcad.org/de/qcad-downloads-trial

3. Convert the trial to the CE according to this tutorial.
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... 668#p17085

If the problem then still persist - then it isn't caused by QCAD.