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MechMachineMan
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Speed up .idw's by turning off visibility based on idw view

Is there a way/would it be smart to create a program that would:

 

1. Use a drawing view in an .idw.

2. Pulls it's orientation/style (Hidden Lines, etc)

3. Use this orientation in the drawing to create a view in the model

4. In this model view, hide all parts that are not in camera (if the view doesn't use hidden lines/has no cut-aways)

5. Set this new view (possibly a temporary view as to not make the model messy) as the design view for the view it was based upon?

 

Alternate: Use the drawing view and hide all parts that do not have visible lines in the specified drawing view.

 

Is there a way to do this using camera information?

 

It seems to make sense as I have heard that drawing will not load parts that are not visible, and thus will maybe save time in mroe complex assemblies/documents.

 

It seems weird how inventor always wants to access all of the information pertaining to a drawing, rather than just speeding the process up immensely by allowing a mode where drawings can just become static objects, such as "suppress view/model link".

 

Any thoughts would help, thanks!


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Justin K
Inventor 2018.2.3, Build 227 | Excel 2013+ VBA
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