We use the Join Curves feature a lot when taking images from CAD systems to reduce the # of objects. In Designer 2017 64-bit after some use, the Join Curves operation becomes much slower to join hundreds or thousands of objects than it did in X7. Is this a bug? Designer eventually slows down and flashes the selection about 1 time per second and takes forever. Instead of a few seconds, it now takes a few minutes or hours.
Is there any way to speed it up? I was hoping upgrading to 64-bit with multiple cores would make Join Curves faster, but it's not. Join Curves only causes 25% CPU usage. It would be nice if used all CPU cores. Disabling the flickering of selection points on and off would probably help.
The Join Curves settings are:Bezier Curve
Gap tolerance: 0.026"
Here's a sample file:6544.des
3248 objects reduces to 547 and takes about 3 minutes in Designer 2017.
This would take only several seconds on X7.
Is there a better/faster way to reduce the objects?
This bug still exists in Corel Designer 2017 update 1. I found a temporary workaround.
Please fix this bug ASAP!
I don't have Designer. I do have CD 2017. With the drawing in view it takes 18-20 seconds with your settings from the original post using this older, nothing remarkable laptop.
I know it isn't an apples–apples comparison.