Reduce computing power

[Anonymous]

Any suggestions/experience which is a good way to reduce computing power in complex projects(parallel workflows of designers,engineers etc.)? for instant(hypothetical ideas): Is there a kind of freeze function (everything before this feature is not part of the computing process anymore? 

Are there possiblities to work on components in a new file, which are still linked to basic file where they came from? I appreciate any ideas help or hints

notes: I was working in a Rhino/soliworks enviroment before and I'm an F360 newbie.

[jeff_strater]

@uwe.zwiebler, yes there is a way to do just that.  It's not very commonly used, but was put in for this exact purpose.  If you select any feature in the timeline and right click, you can choose "Convert to DM feature".  The "DM" in this case means "Direct Modeling".  This converts this feature and anything in front of it which it depends on into a Base Feature.  That means that geometry becomes editable only in a Direct Modeling sense.  You can activate the Base Feature and perform operations such as Press/Pull on that geometry, but you cannot edit feature parameters of the original sketches, etc.

In the screencast below, I show a simple design consisting of a sketch, an extrude, a fillet, a shell and a hole.  If I right click on the fillet and convert to a base feature, the sketch, extrude, and fillet are deleted, and the geometry at that point is frozen.  However, the shell and hole are still fully parametric features and are editable.

screencast: