Large Assembly Drawings

Config Options

The following are configuration file options that relate specifically to large assembly drawings. Making use of these options can significantly improve drawing productivity.

 

 

 

 

Assembly Manipulation Techniques

 

The following suggestions can be used in Assembly mode prior to Drawing creation:

 

 

Increasing Performance when Working with Large Assembly Drawings

The following methodologies can be utilized in drawing mode to increase drawing productivity:

 

Tips & Tricks

 

When working in a drawing and changing the part (or assembly), all views of the drawing are unregenerated. After switching back to the drawing, all views of the current sheet are regenerated automatically. This could last up to 1 hour and more.

By setting the config option auto_regen_views to no, the views are not regenerated automatically. So the user has control using Views - Regenerate View to regenerate the view, which he currently needs to go ahead with his work (Often the user is doing a change in the model and he needs only one view to be updated at the moment).

Exception: When changing display of a layer, the views are regenerated regardless of this option setting. PTC development is working on this problem.

If it hurts too much, use these workarounds:

If you find a better solution, please inform me.

 

To speed up working in drawings you can

When retrieving a drawing, ProE needs time for following steps:

Retrieval of drawingfile and all modelfiles, then the display of all views has to be regenerated. When the drawing has several sheets, then the views of the sheet, which was current when saving the drawing, are regenerated.
This regeneration of the views takes most of the time, when retrieving a drawing.
Example cylinderheaddrawing: Load of files takes 1 min., regeneration of views takes 20 min.

To speed up retrieval time, you can either