Solidworks slows to a crawl with 1000's of holes

[powder99]

I have a drawing with 1000 or so holes and it takes close to 20 minutes to open. I have read previously that solidworks is not good at handling so many holes. Has anyone else experienced such a major slowdown with Solidworks. I have a pentium 4 2.4 Gig machine with 2 gig RAM

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

"network drive" ????
That could well be your problem right there!
Make a copy of the offending files on your local machine and compare the times when running locally.



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[powder99]

We have gigabit cards making the network very fast. Opening the file is not the issue its when I attempt to change a dimension within the hole pattern.

 

[drawoh]

powder99,

I have an assembly sitting on an optical breadboard with 765 1/4-20UNC tapped holes on each side. I am not having problems with drawings, but my model was rotating very slowly.

I went into Views and Display, and I turned off "HLR Edges in shaded mode". Everythihg is fine now.

If you take the SolidWorks course on handling large assemblies, they recommend this.

JHG

 

[powder99]

Thanks for the input, I'll try it out

 

[powder99]

Unfortunately turning off HLR makes no difference. I have suppressed the pattern and when I attempt to unsuppress it takes a good 20 minutes - extremely unproductive!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

poeder99
Send the file to the address in my profile & then we can compare the times to see if it's the computer or the file.


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