×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.
2

Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

(OP)
I like using previews but in many cases it greatly increases save time. I have tried some different options but nothing seems to be efficient. I would not think creating a small preview image should take very long. I like preview but if it cannot be sped up then I'm going to have to leave it off because the extra save time is simply not worth being able to look at a part preview. Any suggestions on how to speed it up?

NX9
Migrate to 10 when 10.2 is released.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

Have you actually compared the times between saving files with or without the Preview capture option toggled OFF?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

(OP)
Yes. I took an average of four parts saving with preview on and and average of four parts saving with preview off. The parts are medium sized, for me, and assemblies take longer. The time increase is 50% with preview on. Large assemblies can be a real bear but I do not have data on those because it appears parts that were created with preview on will keep making previews even if customer defaults are turned off. So I would have to complete an entire project assembly with preview off to attain assembly performance data.

Not an earth shattering problem; I'm just looking for any suggestions. I'm always looking to speed up my work flow anywhere I can and within reason.

NX9
Migrate to 10 when 10.2 is released.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

The part preview options are "part level" meaning that changing the customer default options will not affect existing parts. You can change a part's preview options by going to: File -> properties -> preview

You might try changing the preview creation option from "on save" to "on demand". This way you still get the benefit of a preview, but it only updates when you tell it to.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

(OP)
Thanks, I will try it out.

NX9
Migrate to 10 when 10.2 is released.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

Also in Customer Defaults, at...

Gateway -> General -> Part

...set the 'Model View Preview' option to either 'On View Save' or 'On Demand'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

(OP)
I will try the tips. Thank you all!

BTW....it's Friday!

NX9
Migrate to 10 when 10.2 is released.

RE: Saving takes a long time with part previews enabled.

(OP)
I just noticed noticed using Part Preview will give me back previews in a Windows Explorer window; I missed that. That's super valuable to me.

NX9
Migrate to 10 when 10.2 is released.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources