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Drawing performance question

Drawing performance question

Drawing performance question

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Is there a difference in performance speeds of a drawing when you set up assembly configurations to display certain things in a drawing verses placing a drawing view and hiding the desired components in the drawing feature manager design tree?

Regards,

Christopher Zona
Litens Automotive Partnership
Concord, Ontario, Canada

RE: Drawing performance question

That probably depends on the size of the assembly and how many parts need to be hidden.

Hidden parts are still loaded into memory, while suppressed parts are not.  Therefore, configs with the parts suppressed should have better performance when the entire assembly is loaded into memory.

But - if you are depending on using the Large assembly mode settings, especially loading parts lightweight, there could be a performance drop with using multiple configs.  If using SWx 2004, anytime you switch configs all parts switch from lightweight to resolved.  This means there is no way to have a drawing showing 2 different configs and be lightweight at the same time.  In SWx 2005 they have made improvements in this area, but some parts will still not remain lightweight.

You may want to test you assembly drawing using both methods and compare.  If you do, let us know!

RE: Drawing performance question

It is possible there may be a difference, but has never been noticeable to me.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP0.1 / PDMWorks 05
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