Feature request: Drawing Environment: Select visible components during new Drawing View creation

[stumcconnel]

I spend a lot of my time in the drawing environment, most of which is wasted waiting for a new drawing view to load.

I'm working on some relatively complex assemblies which run very smoothly in the design environment without any noticeable lag. However, when I create a new 'Base View' in the drawing environment, the default is to display every single component (and sometimes every body within that component, even if hidden in the design file - which I think is a bug as the behaviour is inconsistent).

In the current design I'm working on, this is taking up to 7 minutes to create the base view and then several more minutes to hide all the parts I'm not interested in (I know about selecting them all in the tree and choosing 'Suppress all except selected', which helps a lot). Some of my drawings have up to 10 base views in them, so I'm looking at over an hour of wasted time waiting for the initial base view to generate, not including any mistakes I make.

Once all of the unnecessary items are hidden, operations with that view are then much faster.

I have a decently powerful computer with a Ryzen 5 5600 CPU, 32GB of RAM and an RTX2060 graphics card, so I don't think it's an issue of processing power.

I have previously posted about inconsistent default object visibility in drawing views but this has never been addressed and the workarounds are unreliable.

I think this could be largely eliminated by allowing the user to choose which components to show during the initial drawing view creation dialogue, so that no time is wasted in processing objects that will then be hidden by the user as soon as it's loaded.

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @stumcconnel 

Thanks for sharing this feature request with us. Every customer request that we get, from meetings, emails, forum posts etc. gets collected and categorised in our feature request database. This information is used to prioritise the features that we build next. I've added your request to our database.

The way selection works today, is based on the model visibility, but you are able to create your own selection set too. I've detailed this here:  https://clintbrown.co.uk/2024/04/10/drawing-references/ 

I'd love to hear from you directly, and to get your thoughts around this. If you're up for it, here is a link to my calendar, please book a 30-minute session with me, and we can chat on Zoom (Note that times are in 24:00 format so 03:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm).  Or if a good old-fashioned email is more your style, feel free to ping me Clint. Brown {a} Autodesk.com

[stumcconnel]

Thanks Clint, have booked a chat for tomorrow!