Hi,
I have published a blog article which explains hows to gain the maximum performance from the stand-alone application: SOLIDWORKS Stand-Alone API: do not compromise on performance
I have performed multiple experiements and the performance of stand-alone compared to add-in could be dropped in more than 800 times. The blog article explains the possible solutions of this issue.
Thanks,
Artem
That's fascinating! I never thought that a stand-alone application would be so much slower to perform the same tasks, especially when using the API to communicate with Solidworks.