I have used Bobcad for 10 years. In the early days it was fast and I loved the speed of how I could create parts, After V21 I went to V26 and then things went down hill as far as speed. On small files things are not so bad and for most of my parts I am making small 2d simple parts and I run the same parts all the time, not much design on a daily basis. But on a big file or a file a client sends me it can take over 20 seconds just to zoom in or move around. I have used multiple laptops over the years and several desktops, none of which were really equipped for speed nor with video cards. Today I decided to get a much better laptop to see if that solved the issue and I made sure to get massive ram and a video processor with 4g. I got a new Asus Republic of Gamers Laptop
- ASUS GL753VE-DS74 17.3" Gaming Laptop GTX 1050Ti 4GB Intel Core i7-7700HQ
Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ 2.8GHz (Turbo up to 3.8GHz)
Windows 10 (64bit)
16GB DDR4 2400MHz
17.3" FHD (1920*1080), matte
NVIDIA GTX1050Ti 4GB GDDR5
"256GB SATA3 SSD
1TB (5400 RPM)"
I called last week to deauth the old HP laptop and installed V26 and V29 on the new laptop. I have a 2meg file 2D simple lines and arcs only, nothing complex at all. To pull a horizontal dimension typically takes 15seconds to select the first point, 15 seconds to select the second point. So 20-30 average to pull a dimension.
Many other simple functions take 10 seconds to select a point or right click > OK.
It is no longer acceptable to spend this amount to time per day just to do simple tasks. I see guys with other software that blaze through designs and makes Bobcad look like a joke, one guy uses Archcad and on massive files for entire houses he is lightening fast, never a delay to pull a simple dimension. I have to find a solution even if it means moving to a new CADCAM for cnc purposes ( Camaster CNC with WinCNC).
Since I cannot spent more money or time to solve this issue with Bobcad, I would love any suggestions on a CADCAM that would be quick to get up and running on new platform, I was hoping someone with prior Bobcad experience would have suggestions on other programs.
In the mean time if anyone has suggestions on why a 2meg very simple file would take 30 seconds to pull a dim or 10 seconds to select a point to translate off of I would really appreciate any advice. Not sure how much more of a machine I'd need to actually use Bobcad. But, on the i3, i5 older laptops with NO graphics card and 8Gig ram, it was the example same problem. I feel like I just wasted $1200 today getting this blown out laptop thinking it would solve the problem.
V29 demo is no better.
Thanks for any assistance.