Do Bentley have a plan to sort out the crippling slowdowns when working on large projects, over networks?
Bad enough being slow to open a model, but adding view cacheing etc in to the mix it is a crippling state of affairs. For example, current project, is a multi block mixed use resi/commercial scheme. Creating sections/elevations requires all models to be displayed. Currently, I have 747 references in total (this is an average amount)
Creating views, straightforward, but slow. cacheing, an absolute age if it doesn't crash.
And PS, has always been this way. in over 17 years of use there has been NO improvement whatsoever....
Hi Duncan,
Thanks for raising an SR regarding this issue as well.
Did you try to remove your Prefs folder from this location: "C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Local\Bentley\OpenBuildingsDesigner" then restart OBD?
HTH!
Regards,Sayan Acharyya
Hi Sayan,
After a while of use, resetting prefs can speed up usage, but that is only once performance has degraded further form the normal slow performance.
As I said above, this is a long standing, fundamental issue with networked datasets. not a simple corrupt prefs issue.
Working locally does improve speed but is not practical in an office environment with large teams on large projects.
Bump.
If anyone from Bentley is interested in witnessing the network speed issues that they are apparently oblivious to because please let me know.
Even working locally OBD is slow for many tasks, in my opinion. I got to the point where I put all my drawings on "Cached - manual" to have it workable. Only when I need filled visible edges I have to use "Dynamic" and it's a pain to do anything there. Even in relatively small projects (only 2-3 stories).
Unsurprisingly no meaningful responses from Bentley
Hello Duncan,
I have forwarded this thread to product management team, they are evaluating this rn. will keep you posted.
Regards,Alifur
Any updates Alifur. As stated above, this is crippling us. i keep filing SR's and submitting datasets, but find that Bentley do not seem to test in an equivalent environment. We are not even at a complex stage yet. it's quite simple, if this isn't sorted, then the powers that be will just switch to revit, despite the huge issues that gives us with drawing production, scheduling etc. At least we can work around these. We cannot work around frozen models, that crash when attempting to create drawings, rendering that does not reflect on screen set-ups, or lags that last way longer than the total task time.