Since the switch to Solidworks 2021, the times and sizes of the plans have increased and I can't figure out why and how to relieve.
An example, my colleague had a plan made in solidworks 2020 weighing 70MB; he opened it yesterday on solidworks 2021, he just moved a note to be able to save a ''change'' and now the plan is 184MB.
One of my plans is 102MB and takes 22min to save and the opening I don't even talk about it and you can't see if Solidworks is frozen or working and its progress, you have to look in the task manager to see that the processor is working.
I don't know what to do to get back to the "speed" of before, can you help me? (no "tricks" such as creating parts of the assemblies and replacing, it worked very well before and we do 3D design with necessary assembly update)
By putting assemblies (it's up to you to choose the least restrictive, those that will move less in design) on ''Set solved parts to lightened'' the opening and saving of the plans is faster on the other hand the size in MB does not move too much it is still quite heavy I think.
To do this, you open your assembly and you right-click on it and choose "Set solved parts to lightened".
Hello, As @theo.cuadradosays in this topic, you have to uncheck the line in Options > Drawing / Performance and uncheck "Include skin mode data when saving", (appeared in 2020 SP4.0).
It seems that it works much better without it. Not yet tested for me but one of my colleagues confirmed that it was faster.
For the moment, the big time saver is my "Adjust solved parts to lightened ones" manipulation. Open the 3D, change the assemblies you want to lighten and open your plan.
I went from 22min of opening to 5min for my plan and the recordings are also faster. The size of the plan remains because it's only graphic visuals that Solidworks doesn't load, so everything is still there but not in memory.