Dynamo Constantly Stalling

Civil 3D
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Is anyone else having trouble editing graphs. I’ve made some large technical graphs but whenever I try to edit them the program stalls out after making one or two changes. This is making it very hard to operate or function.

The graphs are on manual run.

Does anyone know of a way to improve or prevent this situation?

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First thing to try is setting your backup time to a higher value in the preferences. I recall it was something like 1 minute for some of the C3D builds and the element binding mechanisms can cause 30 if the 60 seconds to be lost on redirecting the call.

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Thank you. It was set to 5. I”ve now set it to 20. I typically stalls out during scrolling or panning operations and sadly persists.

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Ok - that sounds related to a different issue which the team is aware of and hopes to release a fix for, but we don’t have an ETA.

More here: Dynamo 3.6 crashes during basic UI operations (pan/zoom/node editing)

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thank you, I’m looking forward to the update. I hope it’s soon. It’s very frustrating. I can near complete a graph in a short period and than when I pick it up again to make some edits it stalls out after every couple of actions.

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Probably nothing that helpful but my workarounds:

  • zoom to a legible level and then pan, don’t touch the scrollwheel
  • If I have to plug something in that’s off screen I connect the outgoing wire to a code block and drag that over to where I need
  • Export the graph to image and use that as a map to navigate on a second screen?
  • Save after every change.

Still accidentally zooming and crashing at times.. sellotape the scrollwheel? :grinning_face:

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Guess I’ll share my reuse of nodes elsewhere in a graph trick here:

place temp node > highlight > ctrl+c to copy > delete to remove the temp node > navigate to where needed > ctrl+v to paste > reposition wire > delete to remove pasted node

Looks like this:
navigation trick

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I can’t contribute anything to your problem, but just out of curiosity:
How large are your graphs?

I’ve never run into those issues even with my largest graphs (but I also find graphs very hard to maintain and grasp, once they reach a certain size) so they must be quite big!