9x faster Tab Switching in Civil 3d 2024 – NO!

I did this post last week where I tested the claim of up to 9x faster tab switching with AutoCAD 2024. My thought is this would be great for my Civil 3d users who use a lot of tabs. Faster is always better, right?

Unfortunately this speed increase did not transfer from AutoCAD 2024 to Civil 3d 2024. I suspect this has to do with the fact that Civil 3d regenerates object very differently than straight AutoCAD.

The good news is Civil 3d 2024 managed to do this about 11% faster over 5 trials with Civil 3d 2024 always coming out faster than the 2022 version.

I also tested to see if this speed increase in tab switching also applies to publishing the same 50 sheet drawing set. Unfortunately, the answer is no to that (even in AutoCAD). I suspect whatever change was made to speed up tab switching was not applied to the publishing code.

Here is a video of one of the runs.

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