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Slow Loading Drawings

Slow Loading Drawings

Slow Loading Drawings

(OP)
I wonder has anyone out there some pointers which may help me. We make some large machines which could have up to 1000 parts in them. For these machines I need to do a general arrangment drawing with a BOM attached. Our machines are conveyors and are often long so I often use the vertical break option to make the drawing easier to read. I also like to balloon the views to link with the BOM. I have found that after using balloons and a vertical breaks the speed of loading and manipulating the drawing decreases hugely. For example, if I want to pull a view down a little on the page I get hung there for up to 3 minutes. My machines is pretty high spec and I am not using a network connection. Why would just moving a view cause this much slow down? Does anyone have any tips?

RE: Slow Loading Drawings

What version of SW?

You may be able to use draft quality or lightweight.

Switching off the "Show contents while dragging drawing views" and "Smooth dynamic motion of drawing views" otpions may help.

Also lower the Image Quality settings.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Slow Loading Drawings

(OP)
I am running SW 2006 SP3. 2GB RAM. 256MB Quaddro Fx 3400 card. PIV 3.2GHz. I have the drawing open in Large Assembly mode and I have the image quality well reduced. I turned off Large Assy Mode and it didn't appear to make the problem any worse. Just to be clear, all I am doing is dragging a view on the drawing sheet. It moves smoothly but when I drop it in its new position it is like SW is rebuilding the entire model. The 'egg timer' coms up and looks at me for a few minutes and then the view appears again. I don't understand why the view would need to rebuild if I simply drag it to a position on the sheet as I have not changed the orientation in any way. I thought maybe there was a simple setting somewhere for this. Removing the vertical break seems to improve the problem to a large extent but my model is so long that I need to break it.

RE: Slow Loading Drawings

Do you have the Verification on rebuild option unchecked in Tools > Options > System Options > Performance?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Slow Loading Drawings

(OP)
No. That is unchecked. I got onto my VAR about this again and after some time he confirmed what I suspected. The vertical break is a problem on views of assembly with a lot of parts. He said that numerous people have complained about the vertical/horizontal break feature for a number of reasons. I have since added my name to this list by requesting an enhancement.

RE: Slow Loading Drawings

As a temporary workaround, can you adjust the drawing scale to show the complete assy (without breaks) and then use the Detail function to show the ends at a larger scale?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

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