At work we had created an assembly drawing from anotherassembly drawing (File, Save As). We use SW 2009 SP1.
During editing of the saved as drawing a new assembly was created(file, save as also) due to the items needed to be shown beingdifferent than in the original assembly. The original assemblydrawings were removed from all sheets and only the new assembly wasreferenced (or needed to be referenced) in the drawing.
This also created a 21,000 KB drawing file and very slow redrawsand sluggish performance.
Using File, Find References we found that the original assemblyfile was still listed (remember it is not in the new drawing anymore). After spending about an hour trying to unlink this referenceand removing much hair we stumbled upon a work around.
Close SolidWorks (save the file) and go into windows exploder(sorry, Explorer) and move the assembly file to a new location.Then open the new drawing file, of course you get the pop-up windowasking you if you want to find the missing (unused) file, say no,save and close.
Reopen the drawing file and you will find that the unused referenceis no longer there. You can now move the assembly file back to itsoriginal location and the new drawing file will not relink to it.
The new drawing file size is now 1,000 KB, wow 20,000 KB smaller,and redraws and performance are greatly improved.
Seems to us that not being able to break a bad reference link inany way through SolidWorks or SolidWorks Explorer is just plaindumb. An unneeded reference not only made performance of thedrawing file poor it also made the drawing file oversized.
Anyone else notice this?SolidworksDrawings And Detailing
During editing of the saved as drawing a new assembly was created(file, save as also) due to the items needed to be shown beingdifferent than in the original assembly. The original assemblydrawings were removed from all sheets and only the new assembly wasreferenced (or needed to be referenced) in the drawing.
This also created a 21,000 KB drawing file and very slow redrawsand sluggish performance.
Using File, Find References we found that the original assemblyfile was still listed (remember it is not in the new drawing anymore). After spending about an hour trying to unlink this referenceand removing much hair we stumbled upon a work around.
Close SolidWorks (save the file) and go into windows exploder(sorry, Explorer) and move the assembly file to a new location.Then open the new drawing file, of course you get the pop-up windowasking you if you want to find the missing (unused) file, say no,save and close.
Reopen the drawing file and you will find that the unused referenceis no longer there. You can now move the assembly file back to itsoriginal location and the new drawing file will not relink to it.
The new drawing file size is now 1,000 KB, wow 20,000 KB smaller,and redraws and performance are greatly improved.
Seems to us that not being able to break a bad reference link inany way through SolidWorks or SolidWorks Explorer is just plaindumb. An unneeded reference not only made performance of thedrawing file poor it also made the drawing file oversized.
Anyone else notice this?SolidworksDrawings And Detailing
