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Hello folks'

I am getting some serious lag time when I am saving drawing documents. I do not think my assemblies are too large and certainly not to complex. What are some option adjustments I might try to save the lag time?

How big are your assemblies? How big are your drawings(How many pages, how many viewports)?

There's a bunch of things to take into consideration. Image quality is a factor but you've most likely already looked into that.

What do you have checked for this area?

Are you saving locally, and onto fast storage (e.g. a recent NVME drive)? If you'd said "drawing" singular, I'd say start deleting sheets, and see if you can tie the slow save to one particular sheet. But since this problem is happening with "drawings", it seems like something else is going on.

When you save a drawing, are models saving as well? If models are saving, it is possible that you have models that are set to rebuild all configurations on save, or update all display data on save, and that is where the slowdown is occurring.

We had some not so big assembly taking like 90 seconds to save with SW freezing.

It was caused by some bad import data inside the components part.
diagnostic and simplification for six components allowed the top assy to shrink from 42MB to under 20MB and to save in a few seconds...day and night.

I have also benchmarked the drawings and performance were better there too. worth a try.

then disable detailing mode in your templates.

Do you have multiple configurations used on the drawing? Typically, we use display states rather than configurations as we create assembly drawings and show the different steps. Having the display data saved for each configuration of the assembly that was made with configurations for each step ballooned our file size. I think that is one of the slowest drawings we have.

I want to second the look for bad import data. Cleaning that up will help a lot.