Partial Loading vs Lightweight Representation

[jadodaro]

Paul,

Thanks for the info. Dumb question.......Our setting is at 'automatic' instead of 'large'. I can check, when I get a chance to, but what would the difference be??? I would think 'automatic' would be better to adjust as needed, but I may be wrong in that thinking.

[Paul_Bevan]

Jadodaro,

Automatic is  the out of the box setting which in general is fine for most needs, However you will notice if you toggle it to large then certain parameters get updated, such as frame rate, detail and also the hide small objects. If you toggle this to custom you can then set all of these for your particular needs. So if during rotation or pan and zoom small objects are not needed to be seen you can set the parameter to suit. So if you zoom out, more of the smaller objects will disappear, as you zoom in they appear based on your settings. The level of detail can also be changed so again as you manipulate the geometry the components will look very facetted until you stop, they then show as you would expect. I would try some different settings to see what suits you best but am sure you will find a setting which works for you.

Paul.

[jadodaro]

Paul, Thanks for the info. I will try out some options when I can. Thanks.

[mascaritas]

Dear John R. Baker

I am following this topic with great interest since the use of these two options reduces loading time of my typical assemblies from 1:43 to 0:20 (m:ss).

Now to handle the faceted bodies I tend to use the "assembly representations"

It is sometimes for me not clear:

• where are the faceted representation stored, on the top assembly level or in each component?
• how can I perform an "update all lightweight representations" command. Do I have to use the very same "asy reps" dialog for that, or is there a more elegant way via customer defaults or similar?

Best Greetings from Zurich Switzerland

Marco

[JohnRBaker]

While I still follow these forums, since I've retired (it's been over a year now) and no longer have access to the software, I can't really answer detailed questions like this.  Sorry.

[mascaritas]

We did not catch this, but we are still huge fans of your community work here and around the other forum.

I guess I have to adress these questions out to the general crowd then, happy to hear mor about the subject.

Best Greetings to all

[Paul_Bevan]

Hi Mascaritas,

It depends on what lightweight geometry you are using and where you create it. There is a customer default that allows you to set what geometry is used in for lightwieght when saving the part. These are created at part level so each individual part file contains a lightweight representation. There is also a customer default you can set that loads smart lightweight. The benefit of using smart lightweight is that these can be used in drawings and can be dimensioned to and sectioned etc. Every time a part file is saved then the smart lightweight gets updated. If you create assembly level lightweight representations then you get very fast loading but the downsaide is that if the underlying base geometry changes then you have to load the parts and then save to get the update. There is also less you can do with these lightweight facets. If its purley for visualisation then you could generate a product outline which again is very fast to load. It has to be generated first and is placed on a particular layer wgich you can switch on and off when you need to see it.

Hope this helps

Paul

[mascaritas]

Thanks, this is a very comprehensive explanation.

I have worked with the smart lightweight option for drawing views as well but I made the experience that there were some bad dimension callouts from time to time.

Could that be related to to fact I have not used the customer default "smart lightweight" option?

Greetings

[Paul_Bevan]

It might be related, here is the customer default panel above where you set the options.

Regards

Paul