Another example of performance settings that may be left on or off based on their function are the settings for Repaint after selection in HLR and High quality display of interfering bodies. The repaint option may leave ghosts on the screen and therefore it was left on. The high quality option is left off, but if there are interferences in an assembly, some of the lines may be missing from a drawing view.

Note: If you have a document open, some of these options may be unselectable (gray).

Performance
All the settings in the performance dialog deal with system performance. The settings for Use Software OpenGL should not be set unless you are debugging a software issue.

Note: If you have a document open, some of these options may be unselectable (gray)

Large Assembly Mode
Large assembly mode offers the ability to set many of the performance-related options just for assemblies that exceed the threshold set with the Large Assembly Mode dialog box.

This option allows for a set of defaults for all documents and another one for large assemblies. In the example shown, the Check out-of-date lightweight parts: is set to Don't check. Non-Large Assembly Mode documents will indicate whether they are out of date.

Note: All items shown within this dialog box are performance-related and have not been highlighted.

Image Quality
Image quality is document specific. The settings are defined within the document template. The option Apply to all referenced part documents is available only for assembly documents. The setting for shaded is somewhat faceted for display purposes only, a hole is still round.

Drawings
These setting are drawing-related. The reasons for selecting Open existing drawings with automatic view update off and Automatic hiding of components on view creation is described in more detail below.

When working with a large assembly in a drawing you do not need to update all views all the time. The function Automatic view update will update all drawing views based on assembly changes.

The settings shown above turn off the automatic update. To update an out-of-date drawing, select the view to update, press the right mouse button, and select Update View.

To update all views turn the Automatic view update feature on by selecting the drawing object from the FeatureManager® design tree, press the right mouse button, and select Automatic view update.

The option Automatic hiding of components on view creation takes any components that are not visible in the drawing and adds them to the Hide/Show Components list. The example shown automatically hides 130 out of 230 components

When this option is selected, the Hide/Show Components list is automatically populated.

At any time, components can be added or removed from this list.

These options are accessible by selecting the view, pressing the right mouse button, and selecting Properties. To activate the desired tab, select the tab name.

The tab Hide/Show Components is shown in the example.

Display Modes
The display mode can also have an effect on performance. While wireframe is listed as the fastest mode, it typically is difficult to work with and is not practical. The modes and relative speeds are as follows:

• Wireframe (Optimal)
• Shaded (Fast)
• HLR (Hidden Lines Removed) (Slower)
• HLG (Hidden Lines Gray) (Slowest)