How can I improve performance in drawings with large vault objects?
If you use running object snaps in an AutoCAD command and hover over a vault object that contains many entities, you may experience a delay as AutoCAD analyzes the vault to determine if there are any object snap points to lock onto. A vault is a single drawing object, and the more complex a single drawing object becomes and the more object snap points it has, the more time AutoCAD needs to process it. If you have object snaps on all the time, this can result in the cursor becoming ‘sticky’ when hovering over a vault. There are several strategies you can use to combat this issue: • Disable measurement/grip points when creating the vault, which also disables object snaps. You may wish to do this anyway if you don’t want the recipient to be able to exactly snap to points in your vault. • Leave measurement enabled, but disable ‘Resurrect’ so that the vault entities remain static and not “live” entities. • Create two roles, one for measurements (slow) and one for all other tasks (fast). • D
