Good afternoon,
I have a goal of making a standard plant library for our team to pull from. With each plant having predetermined 2D symbols and accompanied color symbols.
It's a big want to have the 2D symbols match exactly the color symbols. That way we can just issue color sheets of our planting plans to help contractors place plants.
I've done some flex testing and have run into to some problems. See below. I read through this article you guys put out and it mostly only covers the PDF being large, the main thing I'm wanting to troubleshoot is the speed of the DWG itself. All of these tests were done with placing ~16,000 plants which is typical for our larger scale projects.
1. Typical Land F/X color symbols
-This is the least desired method but I wanted to test a typical plant 2D plant symbol paired with a color symbol straight from the library. When placing all of the symbols and turning on the presentation mode, it took ~5-10 minutes for all of them to populate. I could actually see them loading in 1 by 1. Plotting takes forever.
2. Custom color symbols
-I previously talked through this process with the support team. I took my typical 2D symbol, pasted it into one of the color symbol files. Purged everything out. Used the color wheel to place a color. Set that layer to LK-XXX-COLR and set it to have a 55 transparency. Symbol looks great! However same problem exists when I place tons of plants the loading times for turning presentation mode on and off are horrid. Plotting takes very long.
3. 2D symbol with hatch layer
-Tried disregarding the color symbol method and just edited the 2D symbol to have a layer with a color hatch. Turning and off using layfrz is quick! So fixes that. However plotting times are still massively long.
The ultimate desire is to have the color symbols that I can set in the plant manager and having plotting times that aren't too long and to be able to toggle them quickly.
Is there a best method here I'm missing? It seems the presentation mode / colored hatch layer may only be a useful tool for small projects. For larger, acres big projects, it seems to buckle under the weight.
Let me know if you'd like me to include some screen captures!
I have a goal of making a standard plant library for our team to pull from. With each plant having predetermined 2D symbols and accompanied color symbols.
It's a big want to have the 2D symbols match exactly the color symbols. That way we can just issue color sheets of our planting plans to help contractors place plants.
I've done some flex testing and have run into to some problems. See below. I read through this article you guys put out and it mostly only covers the PDF being large, the main thing I'm wanting to troubleshoot is the speed of the DWG itself. All of these tests were done with placing ~16,000 plants which is typical for our larger scale projects.
1. Typical Land F/X color symbols
-This is the least desired method but I wanted to test a typical plant 2D plant symbol paired with a color symbol straight from the library. When placing all of the symbols and turning on the presentation mode, it took ~5-10 minutes for all of them to populate. I could actually see them loading in 1 by 1. Plotting takes forever.
2. Custom color symbols
-I previously talked through this process with the support team. I took my typical 2D symbol, pasted it into one of the color symbol files. Purged everything out. Used the color wheel to place a color. Set that layer to LK-XXX-COLR and set it to have a 55 transparency. Symbol looks great! However same problem exists when I place tons of plants the loading times for turning presentation mode on and off are horrid. Plotting takes very long.
3. 2D symbol with hatch layer
-Tried disregarding the color symbol method and just edited the 2D symbol to have a layer with a color hatch. Turning and off using layfrz is quick! So fixes that. However plotting times are still massively long.
The ultimate desire is to have the color symbols that I can set in the plant manager and having plotting times that aren't too long and to be able to toggle them quickly.
Is there a best method here I'm missing? It seems the presentation mode / colored hatch layer may only be a useful tool for small projects. For larger, acres big projects, it seems to buckle under the weight.
Let me know if you'd like me to include some screen captures!