As the number of traverses, points and objects in your drawings
increases the Quick View will take longer to Redraw and Regenerate the
drawing. Depending on your computer's speed and RAM, you may not notice
a significant change until you start working with several thousand
points.
Here are some steps you can take to speed up Quick View.
1. Work in Draft Mode
From Quick View choose View | Draft Mode.
Quick View is by default a WYSIWYG (What You
See Is What You Get) drafting
tool. You are always working in what AutoCAD would call Layout mode.
We used to have a Normal vs. Page Layout mode but we found that everyone
preferred to work in Page Layout mode to eliminate those final layout
steps. Now we have Quick View locked into Page Layout mode all the
time, but give you the Draft Mode option which does a number of things
internally to speed up the drawing. You will notice that fonts are not
filled, lines are jagged, etc. When you print, TPC turns off Draft
Mode for the printout.
2. Turn off Clear Type
Right click the Windows desktop and choose
Properties. Go to the Appearance tab and choose Effects.
Turn off Clear Type if it is on.
Clear Type smoothes font edges, making text
easier to read on your computer screen. Many programs don't take
advantage of it, but TPC does. This makes text easer to read on screen,
but comes at a performance price.
3. Turn off Auto Synchronization
Choose Tools | Program Settings and go to
the
Miscellaneous tab. Set Synchronize Views to one of the options other than
Automatic (default).
TPC is built on dynamic relationships. When
you change a coordinate in the Traverse View, Quick View updates the
appropriate line annotations and lot areas automatically. Of course,
this all takes time. Setting a lower level of synchronization puts some
of the burden of updating the views back on the user, but speeds up the
program operation.
4. Use Manual Recompute for contours
Right-click a contour line, choose Contour Settings and turn on Manual Recompute.
When Manual Recompute is turned on, the TIN
is only updated (synchronized with the survey data) when you manually
recompute it.
5. Use the Ignore layer option
Right-click any object on the layer you want to ignore and choose
Layer Tools | Ignore.
TPC can ignore layers you are not using but
still want to see. When a layer is ignored, the cursor doesn't react to
its entities, so you can't select an entity on an ignored layer, but the
layer is still visible, so you can use the layer objects as a
reference. This is a handy tool for contour and background photo
layers.
