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SolidWorks 2013

SolidWorks 2013

SolidWorks 2013

(OP)
I read on a blog about SW2013 that drawings were going to be threaded. Did this make the cut? I can't find any reference to that anymore.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

(OP)
No mention of drawings being threaded there. Also those articles are 2010/2011. I did see a reference to drawings being threaded in 2013, and I wonder if anyone can comment on whether or not that made it into the release or not.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

Still not 2013, but I don't believe much (if anything) has changed.

http://blog.design-point.com/blog/2012/march/hardw...

Quote:

Drawings:This is where we start to see Solidworks dip into the multi-threaded loads. Solidworks assigns a core to each drawing view in your active drawing sheet. Since most sheets have 4 views or greater, a quad core CPU handles drawing loads easily as do dual cores with Hyper-Threading.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

Or maybe this is what you read;

http://develop3d.com/reviews/solidworks-2013

Quote:


Draughting updates

No CAD release is complete without a slew of updates to the tools for creating drawings and documentation. SolidWorks 2013 is no different. While there’s a whole load that are worth exploring, the highlights are on two fronts.

Firstly, Section views have been worked on to make their creation much faster. Essentially, you select the command, pick the view, drag and drop the section line and place the view on the sheet — job done.
SolidWorks 2013

Material properties are fully customisable.

The second highlight is the simple fact that the generation of drawing views is now multithreaded. For those working with complex drawing sheets, the ability to have different threads of computation of each view working in parallel, will make things much more efficient.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

(OP)
Maybe it is in 2013 then. I do not really see any fanfare about it in "What's new in 2013" Would be nice, as drawings for us can get pretty slow, you know; D size with 6 sheets...

RE: SolidWorks 2013

If you want to improve performance, try using single sheet drawings.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

(OP)
I knew that was coming:) It is, and should always be the goal of the draftsman to minimise the size of a drawing, but some drawings just do require that many sheets. That might be difficult for a person who, say mostly draws parts to grasp, but when you get into large and complex assemblies you need more sheets. Not a good thing at this company to save sheets as seperate files because often workmen don't get all the sheets due to the people printing not understanding that other files belong to the same drawing. Keeping revs synched on multi file drawings is a real challenge too. So we don't do it; we take the speed hit instead. So faster drawing performance due to threading would be most welcome.

RE: SolidWorks 2013

I'm pretty sure the multithreading in drawings capability was put in a lot further back and not in 2013.

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