The official advice is therefore to always create fresh templates from the default templates when you switch to a new SOLIDWORKS version. This however also saves all kinds of legacy crap and hidden errors into your brand new template. When upgrading SOLIDWORKS versions, most companies tend to import their old templates and save them in the new version. But by now I have heard of a few occurrences where this was the case.
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I have no idea how to determine if a corrupt template causes your poor drawing performance. Helix features can cause major slowdowns, for example.īefore and after fixing imported model issues 4c: Corrupt templates Try suppressing parts (for assemblies) or features (for parts) and see if you notice a 2x or even 10x speed improvement. When a model is overly complex, its drawing will be as well. You can disable the preview in the SOLIDWORKS System Options > Performance > No preview during open (faster). It sure looks nice, but it makes the loading take longer. SOLIDWORKS always shows you a crude preview while the file loads. Read all the details about this welcome improvement in this article by Canadian reseller Javelin. The undo function also doesn’t work (yet). These actions all require the underlying model, which isn’t loaded. What you cannot do: You cannot create drawing views, create other kinds of tables, add center lines or center marks, or select model faces. You can also move views and add revision tables.
What you can do: You can add all kinds of annotations: dimensions, notes, balloons and symbols. Here is the official help page for detailing mode in SW2022. SOLIDWORKS is still actively building Detailing mode, so its capabilities grow stronger each year. That means saving in release mode will be a little slower (sometimes a lot slower) but you can quickly edit the drawing in Detailing Mode later. SOLIDWORKS does this by saving extra data to the drawing when you are in release mode. Detailing mode is actually built to replace detached drawings in the long term. You can choose to load a single sheet or only a few of the 50 sheets that your monstrosity of a drawing has somehow turned into.ģc: Detailing Mode, available from SOLIDWORKS 2020ĭetailing Mode does not load the underlying part or assembly, just like a detached drawing does. You don’t need to load all sheets! Just hit the Select Sheets button. More info on this window in the SOLIDWORKS Help here. It does not change the loading process itself. Lets you edit the list of referenced files.Resolved loads everything and is the slowest (and default) mode.Lightweight loads about half of all data for components and it loads about 50% faster.Quick View is a read-only mode that is blazingly fast because it only read the drawing file itself, not the referenced files.These are ordered from fastest ( Quick View) to slowest ( Resolved).These are the available options for drawings: But do you use the extra options to the fullest? You have probably seen the open window a gazillion times. This should give you a few pointers to find which sheet, feature or view is the main reason for your PC’s headache. A different kind of report gets generated for parts and assemblies. I have also learned a lot from their Elite Problem Hunter Alin Vargatu, who is the Canadian VAR’s large assembly specialist. The next few images are taken from that post. The Performance Evaluation tool is available for all models types, even for drawings. The complete guide to fixing slow SOLIDWORKS modelsĢ: Measure the performance of a slow drawing first.I think SOLIDWORKS drawings are assemblies – and it blew my mind.SOLIDWORKS suddenly extremely slow? Check your graphics drivers.
How to improve SOLIDWORKS macro speed 10x.Measure the performance of a slow drawing first.
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