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Speed up hole feature

The Hole feature is extremely slow to regenerate could it be looked at to see if it could be sped up?
A very basic feature creating a blind hole 5mm x 12 mm on 5 selected points takes 110ms compared to sketching 5 circles and removing the extrusion to the same depth taking just 14ms.
See example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2af88d9f948183b397aec066/w/c4ebd9ab85761466d042c7f2/e/e036c16cdf7f2871dc529e95
The advantage of a hole feature rather than creating a hole from an extrusion is both speed and the convenience of hole callout on drawings.
When I have a few hours spare I will try and create a much more basic version of the hole feature as I only ever create very basic holes so most of it is not needed.
A very basic feature creating a blind hole 5mm x 12 mm on 5 selected points takes 110ms compared to sketching 5 circles and removing the extrusion to the same depth taking just 14ms.
See example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2af88d9f948183b397aec066/w/c4ebd9ab85761466d042c7f2/e/e036c16cdf7f2871dc529e95
The advantage of a hole feature rather than creating a hole from an extrusion is both speed and the convenience of hole callout on drawings.
When I have a few hours spare I will try and create a much more basic version of the hole feature as I only ever create very basic holes so most of it is not needed.
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It does add an angle to the bottom of the hole.
IR for AS/NZS 1100
Good point, I have added a chamfer to mirror the creation exactly, this adds a few ms so it is now:
Hole feature: 110ms
Extrude remove & Chamfer: 20ms
Actually I would rather it didn't add the angle, mostly I call the hole feature from featurescript so I can get rid of the angle
Do you have a link to it?
IR for AS/NZS 1100