Text Regen Speed Optimisation

Larkin

I Have been working on creating some automated nameplates and have gotten to the point where they are done, but I'm not super happy with how fast they are.

The above is not what this question is about though, my question is, why should it take longer to regenerate the nameplate when I split the face with a sketch than when I extrude the sketch into the face?

In my mind the operation that creates fewer faces and edges should take less time to regenerate.

Wasn't really looking for a solution as much as being interested in why it works in this way.

Here is my Testing Document: Face Text Test | Splitting

eric_pesty

Not quite sure why this is the case, could be that solid Boolean operations are better optimized than surface operations…

If you can live with the "Raised" text option, leaving the letters as separate bodies and creating a composite should be significantly faster than either split or extrude-merge.

MichaelPascoe

If you open the featurescript notices panel for that document, you can profile the different tabs. If you head over to the feature studios in question while profiling, you can see the profiling results live:

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extrude.fs
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/12312312345abcabcabcdeff/v/f2bb4cfe550d510254d4a301/e/aff9bec3150a48098a8184ac…

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splitpart.fs
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/12312312345abcabcabcdeff/v/f2bb4cfe550d510254d4a301/e/748321f899c84fa2958d96c5…

MichaelPascoe

Interesting, the regeneration times for the feature studios don't line up with the feature tree regeneration times:
Perhaps @_anton knows why this is?