Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
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What should have taken 1 hour took 5 hrs this morning.
It takes 1-5 minutes to edit 1 cell in BOM, or regen, or save.
I have a dwg with 9,000 kb model size, dwg is 18,000 kb.
11 sheets of 11x17 size paper
Each sheet has 2-6 views/details on it.
I have Auto view update unchecked.
Also have gone through options to select faster options.
Is there a practical limit to the size of model, or number of sheets, or number of views that SW can effectively manage on 1 assembly drawing?
Thank you
ProjEng99
XP Pro 2002 SP2
2.8 GHZ DUAL CORE PENTIUM
3G RAM
80G DRIVE
ATI FIREGL V3300
It takes 1-5 minutes to edit 1 cell in BOM, or regen, or save.
I have a dwg with 9,000 kb model size, dwg is 18,000 kb.
11 sheets of 11x17 size paper
Each sheet has 2-6 views/details on it.
I have Auto view update unchecked.
Also have gone through options to select faster options.
Is there a practical limit to the size of model, or number of sheets, or number of views that SW can effectively manage on 1 assembly drawing?
Thank you
ProjEng99
XP Pro 2002 SP2
2.8 GHZ DUAL CORE PENTIUM
3G RAM
80G DRIVE
ATI FIREGL V3300






RE: Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
Which version of SW and SP?
Are you running an anti-virus which is checking every file? If so set it to ignore SW files.
How much RAM and VM is being used? (check the Task Manager)
Are you using the /3GB switch?
What other processes are running?
Are you working over a network?
Do you have Windows Desktop Search running?
Do you have Dissection running?
RE: Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
Anti-virus: only a scheduled scan once a wk.
RAM used: 584MB used w/o SW, 1G used w/SW
3GB switch: no, have heard of it, how to turn on?
No other apps, 38 processes but no hogs to shut down I know of.
Network: no, but backups are saved to server
Desktop search: yes. I shut it down and this helped some!
Dissection: what's this?
Thank you
RE: Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
It can be disabled at Tools > Options > System Options > Search.
Both Windows Desktop Search and Dissection will slow SW to a crawl.
RE: Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
Dissection was off.
Thank you it is significantly better, any other tips bring 'em.
RE: Drawings slow: BOM editing, Regen. Practical limit to pages,views?
thread559-155411: 3GB Memory Switch..