Visio 2003 slow down problem

[Not Really Me]

I have a house design that saves as a 1.8 MB .vsd file. I add a casement
window to a wall and change the size and all works fine. I copy the shape
and paste 5 copies. I can drag 4 onto the wall, side by side. When I drag
the 5th, Visio hangs for 2-3 minutes using 100% cpu.

I have tried copying the drawing to a new drawing. Saving it as .xml,
loading it and saving as .vsd per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826418 and
the same problem occurs.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this?

Scott

 

[Barb Way]

I've played around a bit with adding multiple windows to walls, both by
copying them first and dropping into the wall, and by making a copy and
dropping a window in one step. I don't see the kind of performance issue
you mention at all doing these steps. About how large is your drawing (in
number of pages/layers/shapes)?

- Do you have a lot of pages / layers / shapes in your current drawing?
(If yes, try your steps in a relatively new drawing to see how it behaves)

- Was the drawing originally created in an older version of Visio? (If
yes, the older shapes may be part of the issue - we have done a LOT of work
on walls over the last few releases)

- Do you only see this specific performance hit with the Window shapes, or
does it occur when making multiple copies of other objects as well? (This
would probably indicate a general performance issue, versus an issue with
the shapes themselves)

If you have other drawings of similar complexity and size, and do not see
the performance issue in them, it may be some specific object in the
current drawing. Or it may involve some settings that you've configured -
such as the Wall thickness or Window size.


Barb Way
Product Support - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
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