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Lightweight Drawings?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 21:09:58 GMT

I'm working within a 2.1 gigabyte assembly that has a drawing associated with it. The drawing is very difficult to work with, is there a way for the drawing to work in a light weight mode that doesn't necessary consider all 3D assets so that it speeds things up a bit?

I know assembly optimization is a thing to help performance, but that really isn't an option for the assembly. I just want to annotate things freely, and there are a lot of hang ups when doing simple dimensions. Thanks in advance.

Re: Lightweight Drawings?

SharkDesign — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:08:37 GMT

I'm assuming you've tried Raster mode?

Or as we call it in the bizz, Bob Marley mode.

Re: Lightweight Drawings?

SharkDesign — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:09:15 GMT

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014/ENU/Inventor/files/GUID-F80D0D30-0084-4DE8-A969-5A4D23E1C988-htm.html

Re: Lightweight Drawings?

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:52:59 GMT

Yes, unfortunately the issue persists.

Re: Lightweight Drawings?

gcoombridge — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 06:00:34 GMT

If you're just annotating I often defer updates and this seems to speed up performance a great deal. I've been using it a lot working from home - i just copy the IDW over a VPN and edit without needing to get the data set.

Re: Lightweight Drawings?

johnsonshiue — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 19:58:56 GMT

Hi! Without seeing the files, it is very hard to comment further. Based on my experience of this sort, the issue likely is assembly related, not drawing related. What release of Inventor are you on? Please make sure all applicable updates are installed.

Inventor drawing is like a camera view of the actual 3D model in certain angle. Raster view capture the view as bitmap, while precise view project the geometry as vector lines. So, if there is geometry issue on 3D, likely it will happen in 2D.

What you can try is to suppress views. If you are working on a view, other unrelated views can be suppressed (right-click -> Suppress).

Open the assembly -> press Ctrl + F7. Does it report any bad bodies? If yes, you may need to fix them (Repair Bodies workflow). Or exclude them and see if performance becomes better.

If nothing works and you have access to AutoCAD, you could create associative drawing views to Inventor components in AutoCAD (the same or newer release). The command is called VIEWBASE. After the views are created, you can use the industry standard drafting tools to annotate the view geometry.

Many thanks!