Variables - 30+ secs to add/revise

JoshBarnett

Hi all

OS taking 35 seconds to add/revise a variable in variable studio

Time seeming to increase with more variables in studio?

Approx. 100 variables in variable studio at present

What is going on here? Enterprise plan


Thanks

JoshBarnett

Guessing there is a new "micro-version" of the document for every variable change, and that in this case that involves re-building a bunch of assemblies?

Does anyone else have this problem?

nick_papageorge073

I think the whole document gets regenerated. So if you have 10 big part studios in the same doc as the variable studio, it would take time. 

romeograham

If the Variable Studio is inserted into every tab (as is the Default when you create a Variable studio) then it does have to rebuild every tab (Studios and Assemblies).

I've found that it's best to deselect the option, and then manually insert Variable Studios only into tabs where you need them. Helps to speed up a lot.

Also - change the variables in the Variable studio itself if possible - at least the table seems to respond more quickly. When you edit a Variable Studio in the Variable flyout in a Part Studio or Assembly tab it seems to be unbearably slow.

JoshBarnett

I tried creating variables in variable studio and was much faster! Still took a while for other doc items to rebuild but made it easier to work with the variables

Thanks!

I have about 50 part studios and 20 assemblies... explains why so slow. Might need to revise my workflow here

S1mon

JoshBarnett said:

I have about 50 part studios and 20 assemblies... explains why so slow. Might need to revise my workflow here

I assume you mean all in one document. Keep in mind that unless you carefully switch the instances in the assemblies to be versions, all of those tabs (part studios and assemblies) have to be rebuilt each time you make a variable edit if they are dependent on the variable studio. If you start to separate the part studios and assemblies into separate documents, you will be forced to use versions, and the variable studio itself can be versioned. While it's great to have everything all live and updating magically when you're early in the development process, at some point you'll need to split things up.