Really, really slow detail views in drawings.

We have a user making drawings of a moderately large assembly.

3 sheets, not shaded.

On the third sheet he dropped in a view from another assembly and
broke it. Three break lines.

The following happened after he left his computer on all night:

ANY screen activity would cause 100% CPU for an extended time (5 min.)

Cleaning out temp and rebooting helped considerably, but it is still
slow.

Changing line font to thin didn't help.
Setting image quality sliders to low didn't help.

Dragging the Task Manager window over the SW window is like dragging
an eraser, it wipes out all the graphics till the SW window can finish
redrawing.

This is a fairly good system:

Dell 3.2 GHz, 2GB, NVidia FX3000, XP XP1, SW 2004 SP4.1

 

Wasn't this a problems with one of the first Sp's in 2004, that when You
added a few sheets the whole thing choked, and something about draft quality
was slower then high quality when You added broken views.

Krister L

 

Krister,

Something rings a bell there. I am trying to get the guy to work in
shaded mode. That will help a little. But on these assemblies we have
to have details, lots of details, and it kills us on performance
especially when we drag one to a new sheet.

 

Yes I remember this problem...but wasn't it solved in a later Sp. I guess an
upgrade to Sp 4.2 is not an option...otherwise You probably would have done
it already.

Krister L

 

We are all on SW2004 SP4.2. Still too slow. Sometimes it takes 5-10
minutes or more to load a drawing. It really messes with our work flow
because it is at the end of the drawing process that many little
changes come. On a paper drawing the change would be easy, but on SW
it takes a long time for each change on each sheet.

 

Ahh sorry ....I read SW2004 Sp in your first post....sometimes my glasses
play games with me

Krister L

 

Typically the details would be on separate sheets in one .slddrw file.
Might this be a tip you are giving?