Ok. If you want help another time with this map just ask.

Yes.

There is a half way measure you can use, but it only lasts the session and may have unexpected results. You can switch off the redrawing of the symbols by typing DELAYDRAWSYM, and changing the value in the command bar to 0 (zero) from 1.

As you can see, it works to chop the top off this Mike Schley mountain, but look at the foot of the mountain - the semitransparent pixels in the symbol have been turned fully transparent.

Before:

After:

It all depends on whether you have semi-transparent pixels in any of the symbols in your map.

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Yes, sorry Wyvern. I was trying to be clear and in my haste I made it rather unclear.

That's unusual. Generally speaking, if you have a very large city vector symbols like House entities and some of the more complex vector symbols the node count gets rather large and causes things to slow down.

Either way, an extremely large city will be slow, but you can put your districts on different layers and hide the ones you've finished already while you are working on the next one.

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There are a lot of settings or variations of the basic commands that you can modify by right clicking the buttons. Check them out and see :)

Have you tried a fresh download? Maybe this is a recent download anyway. If so, please contact Tech Support for assistance, Steven.

If you import a symbol at a scale of 20 pixels per map unit, it doesn't make any difference what the dpi is of that image. It might be 72 or 600 dpi. It really doesn't matter, because it will be 20 pixels per map unit in the map.

Right click once on the symbol tray to expand or collapse it.

Looks like you hit a right click on it without realising ;)