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?
The analyst filed a defect #660429 for this issue and it is currently being reviewed. You will be notified when this defect has been addressed in a future version of MicroStation.
We also have a lot of issues with referencing dwgs in CE.
For Example opening a 3D Master File with lots of large dwgs attached takes:
- in MS-V8i SS4: : 5:40 Minutes
- in MS-CE Update 9: 37:30 Minutes !!!
- in MS-CE Update 10: 29:10 Minutes
so Update 10 was a LITTLE improvement BUT CE IS STILL A SHOW STOPPER for our company.
Hi Stefan,
can you provide more details about the file(s) you used for testing? E.g. whether it's plain 2D or there are 3D ACIS solid, the size or a number of elements etc.
As Don H. Fu mentioned in his original (and 2 years old) answer, how ACIS solids are managed when DWG is opened was changed in CONNECT Edition completely and it's one from reason why it's so slow. So it would be nice to know whether you have e.g. DWG without solids, but also too slow to open.
With regards,
Jan
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Hello Jan;
yes the mentioned dwgs are made of 3D-solids only.
Actually they are not native dwgs but have been exported from modelers like CREO, Catia or Inventor by our sub-suppliers.
Best Regards
Stefan
as Don H. Fu explained in his original answer, all ACIS solids from DWG have to be converted to Parasolid at background when DWG is opened. Because this thread is quite old, maybe you should create a new post about Update 10 specifically, so it will be more visible to Don and other Bentley people resposnible for DWG implementation.
Hi Jan;
good idea. I will do that. We already created a service request about that issue as well.
Regards