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Hogmodo

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I just used it to create a sketch of a ceiling.  This apparently created a huge regen/offset connection between the ceiling edge and the wall edge.  I then compounded the problem by copy/pasting this ceiling over and over again.  (I thought it would be neat to have a 3/8" gap between the ceiling and the wall and adjacent ceilings so that the caulk joint at the wall and ceiling control joints would go in nice and neat on the details.  Dumb idea!)  My little 10 meg job ground to a halt with long regen waits and everything else I was doing in it slowing to a crawl.  I deleted away until the problem disappeared.  I have now created the ceiling the simple and easy way by picking the corridor under sketch mode while modeling the ceiling and have one big wall to wall corridor ceiling.  No more problems with the job being ground to a halt.  I then just drew detail lines to represent my control joints and everything is fine.

So, the moral to this sad tale is be careful using the offset line command.  It creates an ongoing relationship that could create a connecting loop between those elements that chokes your project down to a crawl like mine did. 

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