Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
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The assembly I'm working on has only five parts. Every time I make a slight change or edit a part, the file goes through the paces of rebuilding every feature in every part before I can start working on the assembly again. It is really slowing down the process. This seems to be something new as I don't remember things moving this slowly. Is there a preference I might have changed that is affecting the performance of the assembly mode? Or can someone suggest what I might look for to move things along a little faster.
Thanks.
John
Thanks.
John






RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
One thing I did was dump the temp files and also the temp files in the SW back up folder. That actually helped a bit.
I'm not real clear about working in lightweight parts and what that's all about. Maybe that plays a role in the way parts are rebuilding.
Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
John
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
If there is, turn that OFF
That setting will cause every feature to rebuild and should only be turned on for troubleshooting.
Only thing I can think of right off
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
thanks very much for you help.
John
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
We actually had a team of SW programmers visit our office because our productivity had dropped to 25% (100+ users). Apparently each part file is being concatenated with a bunch of code which executes every time the part is loaded. With each save it just builds upon this pile of code, it only get worse after each save.
After the service pack is installed, your first load will be slow as before. Save each part and the problem should dissappear.
Good Luck
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Thanks for the follow up. I'm assuming you are referring to SP 4.2 for SW 2004. I'm running 2005.
this problem is really a pain. It seems to be confined to this one assembly...as when I opened a different assembly, the "rebuilding features" either happens very quickly or is somehow different so the file rebuilds quicker.
I turned off verifcation on rebuild in the options>system options>perfomance...that did not help resolve the problem. I reset all performance and assembly options to the factory defaults... that didn't help.
If I even just delete something from the assembly the file goes through this cadence of "rebuilding features" and seems like it rebuilds every feature of every compnent in the assembly. I do have parts loaded lightweight.
any help / suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
John
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Do you use a lot of in-context references? I have found that I occasionally create a circular refernces without realizing it, and everything slows to a crawls.
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
RE: Rebuilding features slowing assembly rebuild
Another good practice would be to eliminate the external references from the two parts and free up the outstanding associations with all the other files. Those references leave you standing on thin ice. (Ever have a file corruption?)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.