IPLOT - very slow

Our office recently added iplot while our main office has had it for a while now without any trouble. Everyone in our office is having all kinds of problems with iplot being VERY slow to load the ips files and then if you need to change any of the settings it seems to take forever for the dialog box to come up and then it takes a while to apply the settings to the files. There is something that is making our configuration slower than the main office. Has anyone had any similar problems?

I just today timed the time it takes to plot through Iplot and it took 7 minutes to update, assign a set file and print 4 files while through print organizer using the same iplot scripts took just 30 seconds. I posted this yesterday in another forum but I don't think many people go into that one so I re-posted. I know, I'm bad.

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0 Offline Todd Combs Mon, Apr 6 2015 1:21 PM
If you are working in ProjectWise mode, test with the following variable set in ip.cfg (C:\Program Files (x86)\ProjectWise InterPlot Organizer\config\ip.cfg):

IP_PW_IGNORE_REFERENCES = true

This will limit the copy out/verification to master file and logical set maintained by PW.

Note: For IP_PW_IGNORE_REFERENCES=true to work, in PW Explorer > Tools > Options > Settings > Document, make sure “Use up to date local copy on copy out” is checked.
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0 Offline Marc Freshley Fri, Apr 17 2015 4:07 PM in reply to Todd Combs
Todd,
this did make things much faster but I was wondering if you could explain exactly what it does. This did seem to make things much faster in not just Iplot with local files but also in Projectwise. I don't like setting variables without knowing exactly what it does.

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0 Offline Marc Freshley Fri, Apr 17 2015 4:07 PM in reply to Todd Combs
Todd,
this did make things much faster but I was wondering if you could explain exactly what it does. This did seem to make things much faster in not just Iplot with local files but also in Projectwise. I don't like setting variables without knowing exactly what it does.

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0 Offline Todd Combs Mon, Apr 20 2015 4:14 PM in reply to Marc Freshley
Marc,

IP_PW_IGNORE_REFERENCES alters the way InterPlot Organizer stores ProjectWise file information in the IPS. Besides storing reference file information inside the IPARM, the IPS file also maintains a separate ‘tracking’ list of ProjectWise file GUIDs that the IPS file references. This is for the purposes of checking whether ProjectWise files have been renamed or moved from their original location. When IP_PW_IGNORE_REFERENCES is set, Organizer does not track reference files associated with the master, it is assumed that a copy out of the master design file will cause ProjectWise to also copy out all the reference files.

Side-effects can be:

1. If you attach a reference file via the IPLOT property pages in Organizer, this file will not be tracked by the IPS and may not be subsequently copied out.
2. If you rename or move a reference file, Organizer will not be able to detect this and display its “Files Moved/Renamed” dialog box.
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