SW dragging BUTT

[bloodclot]

This is probably going to be too broad of a problem with too many variable but here goes anyway. Lately SW has been dragging A** when exiting sketches even if no change has been made. For example, when exiting a sketch on a piece of flat stock with a hole and two slots it takes about 60 seconds when it used to take maybe 7 sec. The part opens, closes & saves fast but making changes or exiting sketches, is now unofficial nap time. I have 4+ GB free on the hard drive and virtual memory is set to 4000 and 4050 respectivly. The system has been defragged, debugged, and completely cleaned of temp files and non-work related items. I have also exercised the "Repair Installation" just in case. Any suggestions of things to check would be appreciated. If no suggestions are available I will understand that as well.

Thanks in advance and I will check my email for reply notifications (between naps of course).

Bloodclot

I come from a small town where the population NEVER changed. Everytime someone got pregnant, someone left town.

 

[Theophilus]

Are these parts also used within an assembly? Just wondering if perhaps there's a circular reference happening with some in-context geometry, since that will happen. Look in the lower right of your window to see if the rebuild tasks are going through all the features of several parts over and over for a quick indication.

If you do have a circular reference, start with the likely sketch in your part and delete the in-context relations to solve the problem.

Jeff Mowry

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[bloodclot]

I think I have found the problem. The part (gasket) has a line of perforations evey inch for seperation. The piece is 23 inches long which makes 660 perforations (hole Ø 0.10). When I supress this feature it speeds up dramatically. I did not think this should slow it down enough to notice but I guess it does. Could I change something about the perforations that would not slow the system down so much? I currently have the seed with 30 perforations as a sketch and Extrude Cut then the LPattern with 22 instances.

Theophilus - thanks for the suggestion. I will keep it handy for future reference.

Bloodclot

I come from a small town where the population NEVER changed. Everytime someone got pregnant, someone left town.

 

[MadMango]

On your Linear Pattern see if enabling the Geometry Pattern option at the bottom helps.

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[handleman]

Also, if you're using "shaded with edges" view you could try going to just plain "shaded". SW doesn't like having to draw all those little black lines for some reason.

 

[PDMAdmin]

Doing a repair on the install can also help. It has resolved several "slow performance" issues for users at my workplace.