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.



  • Interesting problem.

    1. Would it be possible for Mstn to save the parasolid data in the dwg after the first time the dwg is opened or referenced in Mstn? Sort of a Object Enabler for Mstn?

    2. A multi-threaded batch converter to convert the dwg's to dwg's with parasolid info.

    I am sure that the removal of ACIS from Mstn has good reasons behind it, but there should be some compensatory measures to offset the effects of this move.

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  • Interesting problem.

    1. Would it be possible for Mstn to save the parasolid data in the dwg after the first time the dwg is opened or referenced in Mstn? Sort of a Object Enabler for Mstn?

    2. A multi-threaded batch converter to convert the dwg's to dwg's with parasolid info.

    I am sure that the removal of ACIS from Mstn has good reasons behind it, but there should be some compensatory measures to offset the effects of this move.

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