Why the need to “Regen” when usIng AutoCad 2000

[GreensandsParticipant @greensands]

I use AutoCad 2000 which is more than adequate for my purposes for producing workshop drawings but I do find it annoying that almost after every modification there is a need to regenerate the image ((View/Regen) in order to clean up the display. Is there something which can be done to minimise the need to do this?

[GreensandsParticipant @greensands]

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Do you have REGENAUTO set to ON?

This may or may not help, on a hard zoom my circles still become octogons until I give it a manual REGEN

[PatJParticipant @patj87806]

I use AutoCad 2004, and am running into the same issues.

For smaller files, this was not a problem, and only took a second or so for a regen, which I have on a keyboard shortcut key.

For my current project, I have perhaps 100 drawings in one file, which is about 8MB, and the regens have become longer than I would like, along the lines of perhaps 20 seconds.

People have said "Don't put all your drawings in one file", but the efficiency of cut-and-paste, and the quick access to all areas of the design make it the only efficient way to do the project.

I am having to purchase a new computer, with hopes that the problem will be minimized.

I bought an HP desktop, 32GB ram, 6GB ram on the video card.

I hope this computer works, since I have a lot of money riding on this project.

One thing I have found that helps is running the purge command repeatedly until the file is cleaned up.

I have found that this can reduce a file size from 10 MB to perhaps 6 MB.

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Edited By PatJ on 24/04/2022 15:04:53

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

In the early versions of Autocad, when working with large drawings it is better to make the value of REGENMODE system variable to 0 to improve the performance by avoiding unnecessary automatic regenerations. But you will have to do a manual regen after zooming, etc.

The default value is set to 1 which allows unnecessary regeneration in drawings and may deteriorating performance.

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