Very High power usage in Illustrator freezes the program

[Annette5FDE]

When I work in Illustrator with big exhibition panel files, Illustrator freezes due to Very High power usage (see attached screen shot of task manager). I have plenty of CPU and Memory. Help!

[Ged_Traynor]

Moving thread to the Illustrator forum from Using the Community

[ryancloud]

I am having the same problem with a very simple file, turning layers on and off takes minutes and it say 25% cpu and VERY HIGH power usage. Unworkable

[Monika Gause]

Please tell us your system and version information.

How large is the file?

How many objects?

What hardware are you running it on?

[ryancloud]

here is a file i was struggling with

[ryancloud]

having trouble attaching,

here is a file i was struggling with

[Monika Gause]

That's a CAD document. Those tend to be crap.Too many points (71000 in this case) hundreds of text objects.

Maybe ask for a better document.

[ryancloud]

Thank you. I've always suspected those docs were problematic, but we've recently moved from mac to PC and didn't get good enough machines apparently.

Is there a way to clean up the amount of points?

I don't think I'll get better files from them any time soon. (I will try though)

[Monika Gause]

It's a dieline and usually those shouldn't be altered.

But of course you could try the simplify funcion. It might not reduce this, because the real issue with CAD files is that those dashed lines are really single paths for each dash. Maybe the (commercial) plugin VectorFirstAid can improve it. They have a trial period so you can check it out.

I don't know how much precision you need when working with it, so maybe it helps if you do not open it, but instead place and link it.

[ryancloud]

That app looks amazing. Maybe when the economy turns around they will open the wallet again.

The illy simplify/cleanup things didn't seem to help 😞

I am now rethinking, and will take a trip to the guys making these dielines to see if they are any options at export for them.

thanks for your insight!

[Monika Gause]

Unfortunately there's not a lot I could do. The file brought my system to a screeching halt as well.

[ryancloud]

Thats actually comforting 🙂

[Monika Gause]

I know.

I would have told you if the file performed without issue on my computer 🙂