DWG in CONNECT edition

I have experienced problems with dwg references in the CONNECT edition (all the connect applications, Microstation, openroads, AECOsim.)

The connect editions are very slow when attaching dwg-files and very often crash. Sometimes it can take several minutes longer time to attach a dwg in CONNECT compared to V8i.

Have someone else exporienced this?

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  • We have known two things that can impact DWG open performance:
    1) Lots of solids/surfaces in DWG file - ACIS kernel is no longer available in CONNECT hence additional time required to translate ACIS bodies to Parasolid.
    2) Lots of attributes that are out of sync in file - by default CONNECT converts DWG attributes as item types which require well defined attribute definitions vs attributes. Among other things, an attribute that does not have a definition, or a definition that does not have an attribute instance, is considered out of sync which impacts file open performance. In this case, turning on toggle "Block Attributes as Tags" shall make a difference. Obviously you will not have item types after file opened. But you still can manually convert tags as item types after file open.



  • I have tried to toggle "Block Attributes as Tags" but I did not see any difference. I have a large dwg file (50mb) and it took 30sec to reference that file in Microstation v8i SS4 and in Microstation CONNECT it took over 15 minutes.
    There must be something wrong here, if this is the case then CONNECT will be useless for someone working with a lot of references for example dwg and IFC.
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