Probably if compared to SP4 of the same release… now I wonder what is going to break our drawings randomly in 2023
No, they’re just trying to get you on 2023 and then when you’ll have a very similar issue to what you are encountering then they’ll blame it on something like “Well, template’s corrupted”.
They’ve certainly made drawings faster in 2023 but there are so many little issues inside drawings compared to 2019 that sometimes I’m left wondering if I’d rather have a less performant and less buggy program or a more performant but more buggy program.
On my end, the former is certainly the prefered choice.
AlexLachance do you have a list of the main issues you had with 2023 and drawings? It could help me in my next test session towards version up
A lot of display issues such as changing view quality, having to change display style to have a view show back up, not being able to select a component added in the current session to a lower level assembly, there’s a bunch of ones but most of them can be worked with. I didn’t really make a list of these but I’ll try to add more here as I stumble upon them
Stably slow.
That goes with the consistantly inconsistent slogan 
This probably isn’t your problem, but I saw this from Alin about “Make “Automatically populate View Palette with views” a Document Property”
Are there more views in your SolidWorks part than the Parasolid version? Do you have the option on to automatically populate your view palette?
In the past, we have had trouble figuring out why a drawing thought it needed a file that wasn’t related because at one time that model was in the view palette and the drawing didn’t want to let it go.
I have disabled view palette In our settIngs where possible. it should affect file opening and view recalculation (which I also try to disable in my trials), but 2023 seems to be fine with vanilla settIngs, while 2022 just collapse on body hide.
I have another part with 200 bodies, 100 views and dozen of sections and the hide body on a random view takes 1 second, not 3 minutes…same settings. and it is a more irregular and complex weldment.
We received SW DEV’s reply to our inquiry from our VAR and according to them our 3D data behaviour is due to SW2022 being broken somewhere with multibody parts in drawings.
According to SOLIDWORKS the slowness I described above is somehow related to:
SPR#1244123 SOLIDWORKS is not responded after placing a drawing view using this part document.
While the issue with multibody drawings was solved, today I made another quick test with a very big multibody model: over 1400 bodies. Rebuild time 17s
We should not use SW that way, and honestly I would prefer to have a master model assy instead of a big single part file.
2D slow as hell on a Z4 G4 4.2Ghz 32GB RAM SSD
I brought down the rebuild time at around 10 seconds, but the drawing was still slow.
My empirical observation is the faster the model, the faster is its 2D drawing response.
So I exported the 1400+ bodies in a parasolid file and imported back in SW: Rebuild time 0 seconds and you can make the section views almost on the fly with little lag.
Obviously zero parameters, but the alternative would be no drawing or a week to make a page…
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