My company has been working on a product with a laser marked panel and I've had a lot of issues trying to generate the artwork in SW.  Initially I had done the marking as extrusions in the part thus making it very easy to slice the part into a filled section view and explorting it as a filled DXF.  However, the relations in the file have made the file so slow it is unusable.

We have switched to simply putting the marking into sketches in the part and then showing them in the drawing.  When exporting to DXF we now have to manually fill the areas.

Is there an easy way to eliminate the extra steps of the process?  It's nice to do the marking in solidworks because we can then tie the graphics to certain features of the part.  Is there a plugin that can do this more efficiently?  From a configuration standpoint it is much better to keep everything within SW so that we don't have as many files to keep track of when parts go into production.