Paperspace question

[Dormer1975]

I'm using AutoCAD 2008 and I'm having a problem when using paperspace. I have a drawing that has been very jumpy. By jumpy I mean, in model space when I zoom in and out, it jumps. It's hard to explain. But, when trying to select grips or snap points, it's difficult to maneuver the mouse. It's very agitating. I've tried everything to determine what is causing this.

I've contacted our company that provides customer support, and they think it is a video card issue. However, I don't have this problem with any other drawings. The size of this drawing is only 1.8 MB so it's not overly large. So, that kind of threw out the idea that I had some enormous exploded block buried somewhere in my drawing. Regardless, I swapped out video cards and noticed no change.

The next step, I opened a brand new template and copy and pasted my drawings into it. Everything runs smooth as can be. I have every entity, every layer on the new template and I save it. I think I've solved the problem, until I click on the paperspace layout. All I have to do is click on the paperspace layout and the "glitch" comes back. I thought it was caused when I clicked inside a viewport and zoomed to scale, but it occurs when I click into a paperspace layout. It only does it with this one particular drawing though. I have no problem with any other drawing. So, it has to be a setting somewhere or something within the drawing itself.

Working with the current problem just isn't viable. It's not just uncomfortably glitchy, it's impairing my ability to draw.

Any suggestions?

 

[CarlB]

A guess, is your SNAP turned ON in the viewport so that the mouse pointer is jumping to snap spacing?

(I wasn't quite sure if this was happening in paperspace/in a viewport but not otherwise....)

 

[230jhp]

"A guess, is your SNAP turned ON in the viewport so that the mouse pointer is jumping to snap spacing?"


I agree

 

[Dormer1975]

I never did figure out what caused the glitchy problem. In the end, I just xref'd the cleaned architect's drawing into my own drawing and I didn't have the problem. My conclusion is that it was something hidden in the architects drawing. Nowadays, when I encounter problems of this sort, I just save the architect's drawings as a .dwf file, then xref it in as an underlay. Saves time trying to troubleshoot. Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[chicopee]

The SNAP would only make the cursor "jumpy" not the drawing.
Rule of thumb is not to nest XREF's more than once. Anotherword dont XREF another drawing that in itself has XRef's

 

[Dormer1975]

Thanks Chicopee. Yes, I always open the original drawing and "bind" any existing xrefs to that drawing, then clean it up the way I want it to look before I plot to .dwf, then xref it into my drawing. Could you further explain the "nesting" of multiple xrefs into a drawing? Do you mean, don't "nest" multiple copies of the same xref into a drawing?

 

[chicopee]

No; By nesting, I mean that if drawing #1 has an XREF, dont Xref drawing #1 into a brand new drawing. If you do, then the analogy would be having a nest within another nest.
There is no reason not to have multiple copies of an XREf'ed drawing into another drawing.