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by hcgord
Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:20 pm
Forum: SolidWorks PDM
Topic: Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM
Replies: 5
Views: 524

Re: Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM

Good point, that's very subjective.

I found a sub assembly with a similar number of components to the one you show. It takes SW 2024 SP5.0, 1min 50 seconds to open and render the default colours. Most of the assemblies I'm dealing with are alot larger than this....
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by hcgord
Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:20 pm
Forum: SolidWorks PDM
Topic: Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM
Replies: 5
Views: 524

Re: Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM

Interestingly this is the new feature that I wanted to utilize where you can read/list/export custom PDM variables in Assembly Vis. Initially I was testing with an assembly of under 10 parts on a sandbox test instance of PDM and the delay in the Assembly Vis tool loading was noticeable but not a big...
by hcgord
Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:20 pm
Forum: SolidWorks PDM
Topic: Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM
Replies: 5
Views: 524

Assembly Visualization, slow when connected to PDM

Hi, I'm noticing that activating the Assembly Visualization feature (Evaluate) takes an extremely long time to complete. For a small assembly it is taking approx. 2.5 minutes! I don't remember this feature ever taking so long to run. After some research I've discovered that if I disconnect from our ...
by hcgord
Wed Jan 08, 2025 5:15 pm
Forum: SolidWorks PDM
Topic: Is it possible to set a version free variable via API without showing in the file history.
Replies: 14
Views: 2763

Re: Is it possible to set a version free variable via API without showing in the file history.

Interestingly I'm working a project and I also encountered the unwanted history entries when modifying version free variables. I was wondering if you have noticed any unwanted effects of deleting values from [dbo].[HistoryVerFreeVarChanged]?