Speed up hole feature

CAD_SSP

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.

brian_brady

Except when editing them, why aren't holes treated as extrudes or revolves for regeneration purposes? I don't mind that the original regeneration when creating a hole is longer, but after that it is simply a series of faces and edges.

MBartlett21

@keith_marsh
It does add an angle to the bottom of the hole.

CAD_SSP

@mbartlett21
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

MBartlett21

@keith_marsh
Do you have a link to it?

CAD_SSP

@mbartlett21 yes it is in the original post