Slow assembly drawing
Slow assembly drawing
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I have an fairly small assembly drawing (only 4 main components). I have embedded 2 components - a gasoline engine and a reciprocation pump - imported from vendors that were transferred to me as surface models. The assembly drawing I created is ridiculously slow during zooms and pans. We're talking 20-30+ second delays before the command takes action. Model rotates and such are slow and choppy. The engine is saved as a part, pump is an assembly. Is there anything I can do to speed things up a bit? SolidWorks 2015, 12GB ram, Quadtro 4000 w/2GB onboard.
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Contractin' Dave
Mechanical Design Engineer
25 years in the contracting world






RE: Slow assembly drawing
Also I have found saving the engines as a single part makes the files even larger. Your better off keeping them as an assembly if possible. I was able to change an engine that was saved as part (175 MB) as different surface bodies and some solid bodies. I changed it to an assembly that was made up of mainly solid bodies, a couple of surface bodies, but all separate components and it was a total of 32MB. It opened far quicker than as part.
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