Hello,
After upgrading from SolidWorks Electrical 2014 to 2016 my group and I saw a drastic decrease in performance in the software. Old projects could take a couple minutes doing almost any task, like moving a wire. We also notice that even simple tasks on newer projects like adding multiple wire labels at once can take a couple minutes.We also notice that as the project grows, the software slows down on almost every task.
We aren't sure where these performance issues come from. To us they could be related to issues on our shared database, too many projects on our growing collection, or if this is simply how SolidWorks Electrical operates. If this is normal, it's almost getting unusable for large projects.
Does anybody know what might be causing this?
We had these kinds of issues with 2016. From what we were told, it had to do with the number of wires in the project. Specifically, the origin/destination arrows were causing anything related to wires to bring up too many tables from the database. So renumbering a wire could take multiple minutes of time. As a workaround, I was holding off to insert origin/destination arrows until the end, and that may have helped. We've upgraded to 2018 SP3 now, and I don't think anyone is having these issues anymore.