Undo File Management - Add "Delete Undo File" operation

[andrew_lehman]

Inventor slows down significantly when my Undo File grows above a certain size.  I believe the problem would be solved by adding a "Delete Undo File" operation.

Related suggestion:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideastation/set-the-number-of-undos-and-limit-file-level/idi-...

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If I were reading this post I would want more info so here goes:

I work with complex assemblies, some containing more than 1000 IPTs.  With no undo file stored, a "big" operation like a break-out drawing view takes 2 minutes to complete, and creates an Undo File that is bigger than 1GB.  This is common.  I performed the test below.

Save, close Inventor, open Inventor.  (clears undo file)

Change breakout depth from 0.5 in to 0.501 in.

Time: 2 min

Change breakout depth from 0.501 in to 0.5 in.

Time:  20 min

Save, close Inventor, open Inventor.  (clears undo file)

Change breakout depth from 0.5 in to 0.501 in.

Time: 2 min

Save, close Inventor, open Inventor.  (clears undo file)

Change breakout depth from 0.501 in to 0.5 in.

Time:  2 min

Issue is not resolved by increasing size of Undo File.  It is also not due to system limitations (30% processor load, 10 GB unused RAM out of 20GB total).  I would guess it has several software-related causes, but I think adding a "Delete Undo File" function would be a low cost band-aid for this issue.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

I seem to recall also that the steering wheel (that nearly no one uses) contributes to this as well, because it's "recording" so that the "Rewind" can be used. It would be nice to have the ability to disable the steering wheel, or have a way to Purge/Delete the memory it is using for undos.

[inv.ideareview]

We’re archiving this Idea because it's been on the board for well over a year and hasn't received many votes from the community. If you want to raise it again and try to gain more support, you're welcome to do so.

[Anonymous]

I do believe this would be very useful.  I hadn't thought much about it until I started working with very complex Vendor files (they have a lot of combing fillets and odd surfacing) and in order to work with the files the "Undo" has to keep growing in order to accommodate the file (s).  Being able to easily clear this info on a restart of Inventor would be a nice addition to its functionality.