Using Performance Reporting
You can analyze a part or assembly and understand which sub-models and features require the most retrieval and regeneration time. General statistics on the model are available as well.
Limitations for Regeneration and Retrieval reports:
• Regeneration and retrieval times are system dependent and will vary depending on other running processes.
• Multiple occurrences of the same component are all added to the respective assembly total. This can give an inaccurate result for the regeneration and retrieval report of that assembly.
• In the report the regeneration and retrieval times are displayed with 2 places after the decimal point. When the assembly contains many sub-nodes, the truncated time fragments from all the nodes accumulate and appear in the total at higher levels. This can create a discrepancy between the values shown at the higher-level nodes and the sum of the sub-nodes.
Known Limitations for the Regeneration Report
Below is a list of known limitations for the regeneration report:
• Simplified representations are not fully supported, external simplified representations are not supported.
• Mechanism assemblies regenerate the first time you click Compute. to trigger their regeneration again, a change in the assembly is needed.
• When you open a component that was already regenerated in its top-level assembly, you must click Compute to see its regeneration time.
Known Limitations for the Retrieval Report
By default, retrieval time is not tracked. Use the Measure retrieval time setting on the Environment page of the Creo Parametric Options dialog box, or the measure_retrieval_time configuration option to enable retrieval tracking.
Below is a list of known limitations for the retrieval report:
• When you retrieve an assembly that has models already open in the session, the open models have no retrieval time in the newly opened assembly.
• When you retrieve a simplified representation, only models included in this representation are retrieved and appear in the report. When you change the status of components from Exclude to Master, the retrieval report does not update and these components are not listed.
• Retrieving an instance before the generic retrieves the generic as well.
• When you click Compute on the Regeneration tab and models are retrieved on demand, the Retrieval tab shows an outdated retrieval warning.
• The time spent building and displaying the Model Tree that occurs after the model is retrieved is not counted in the reported retrieval time.
• The system does not filter out user interaction time. For example, the time you interact with the Open Rep dialog box, or the Select Instance dialog box.
• Imported models do not get the granular breakdown of retrieval times that native Creo models get.