With a large number of us working remote since the pandemic, there are some slowdowns that can happen. One issue I have seen in my organization is the time it takes to set the working folder when working through the VPN. If you are using a working folder structure that contains many folders to index, this can take a long time.
I will agree that my organizations working folder setup is suboptimal. With a project # of 12562, we set the working folder to P:\12000, requiring Civil 3d to index over 1,000 folders. With everyone in the office this took about 10 seconds to execute.
Working at home through the VPN this could take as long as 20 minutes. Here is a really boring video!
Enter the hero of our story, the new feature in Civil 3d 2024 ENABLEDSMULTITHREAD!
Setting ENABLEDSMULTITHREAD to ON had reduced this from about 20 minutes to about 10 seconds. That’s what I call a productivity boost!