10 Replies Latest reply on Feb 17, 2016 1:45 PM by Colleen Christie

Pack and go with multiple drawings

Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 10:41 AM

I have an assembly that I want to do a pack and go on, but I am having an issue with getting all the associated drawings to be included. Because of my assembly size and the amount of drawing sheets required (50-70 sheets per assy) I have had to break my drawings down into 5-6 drawing packages. When I select the "include drawings" option in the pack and go it searches forever. I left it running last night and came in this morning with an "out of memory" error. I am running a 64bit system with an i7 @3.6Ghz and 32GB of RAM, so I don't think it is my system that is the issue. I think the problem is that I have a pretty large library and it is just taking forever to search for the references when I select "include drawings".

Is there a way to manually select the drawings I want to be inculded or a way to set only a certain folder to be searched?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Colleen

Re: Pack and go with multiple drawings

Shaodun Lin Feb 17, 2016 11:52 AM (in response to Colleen Christie)

Hi Colleen:

All you files store in a network drive or local harddisk?

Regards
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  Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 12:36 PM (in response to Shaodun Lin)
  
  I work off the network
  
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    Shaodun Lin Feb 17, 2016 12:41 PM (in response to Colleen Christie)
    
    Hi: Colleen:
    
    The issue your faced could be a known SPR:
    547140
    Pack and Go is very slow over a network where referenced files are in multiple sub folders.
    
    You can ask your VAR to perform SPR escalation for SPR 547140 if this is has significant impact to your business.
    
    Thank you with best regards
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    Shaodun Lin
    Technical Account Manager - APAC
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Re: Pack and go with multiple drawings

Steven Mills Feb 17, 2016 11:54 AM (in response to Colleen Christie)

You try PnG when parts and sub-assemblies of the top assembly are lightweight? Right-click on the top most assembly and select "Set Lightweight to Resolved" on entire assembly, then do the PnG. You may find you have all the drawings then.
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  Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 1:04 PM (in response to Steven Mills)
  
  My components are set to resolved and none are lightweight
  
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Re: Pack and go with multiple drawings

John Stoltzfus Feb 17, 2016 11:55 AM (in response to Colleen Christie)

All my drawings are multiple tabs, do this on every project, most are around the 50 page mark some as high as 110. I found that it works best if you open the drawing file and pack & go from there rather than the assembly, don't know if that would work for ya or not..
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  Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 1:04 PM (in response to John Stoltzfus)
  
  Because my assemblies are so large I had to stop creating one single drawing file of 50-70 sheets. It was taking 10 mins to open and it was taking 2-3 minutes to select a different sheet, so I now have to break my single drawing down into 5-6 drawing files of ~10 sheets each so that I am not losing so much productivity.
  
  I can easily do the png for the "main" drawing but there are still 4-5 other drawings that will not be included.
  
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Re: Pack and go with multiple drawings

Anton Miller Feb 17, 2016 12:47 PM (in response to Colleen Christie)

Changing to flat view will speed it up. tick Flat view before ticking include drawings. Once your drawings are found then you can switch back to the more user friendly nested view.
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  Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 1:08 PM (in response to Anton Miller)
  
  I am just trying this. Earlier today I had tried again to do the pack and go in the nested view but killed the process after about 1.5hrs.
  
  I googled this issue before coming to the forums, and I found posts that suggested the opposite (to select nested view) but on earlier releases (I am on 2013).
  
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Re: Pack and go with multiple drawings

Colleen Christie Feb 17, 2016 1:45 PM (in response to Colleen Christie)

It took about 45 minutes, but I got the result that I needed.

Thanks Anton!
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