About Drawing Representations
Using drawing representations, you can improve performance, particularly when working with multimodel large assembly drawings and drawings of complex models. Drawing representation functionality is available only with Advanced Assembly.
A drawing representation is a series of commands that specifies a display configuration for the current drawing. You can use drawing representations to control which models and which views of a drawing the system retrieves and displays. For example, you can temporarily remove all models and views that are not necessary for current work.
With drawing representation functionality, you can perform the following operations:
• Improve drawing retrieval time and improve drawing performance by minimizing display calculations such as view regenerations and repaints.
• Configure the display of a drawing so that you can work with just the drawing information that you need for current work and keep unnecessary data out of memory.
• Turn off the display of views that you are not working on so that the system does not calculate unnecessary display information and, in particular, does not retrieve models into session when you retrieve a drawing.
• Load a drawing to a particular drawing sheet, zoom location, or view center—for example, retrieve only specified sheets of a drawing without loading all the sheets and displaying every view on each sheet.