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Question asked by Jonathan Corsico on Jul 6, 2019
Latest reply on Jul 12, 2019 by David Suelflow

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Has anyone else experienced SW2019 forcing a rebuild upon creating a folder in teh model tree and then adding items to the folder?

I've had this happen several times.

I just created a new folder and added about 300 items to it. SW now appears to be rebuilding after each item it adds to the folder. This is going to take several hours to finish...

Why would SW rebuild upon simply creating a folder in the model tree?

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John Stoltzfus Jul 8, 2019 8:07 AM
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Jonathan Corsico - Did you try to highlight all the different components and drag and drop right into the folder, or are you doing one at a time??
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Dan Pihlaja Jul 8, 2019 9:25 AM
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It seems to me that you are potentially (accidentally) dragging some features above others. Sometimes the sketch that is under an extrude can be located in some unexpected places in the history of a part.

Show the flat tree view (default keyboard shortcut is CTRL+T) and make sure that the items that you are dragging are truly in the order you think they are.
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Jonathan Corsico Jul 8, 2019 11:19 AM
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I'm not dragging and dropping. Instead, I'm selecting all of the various items in the model tree, and then right mouse clicking, and selecting to create a brand new folder.

Solidworks eventually created the folder - it took about 5 hours! I have no idea how many times it rebuilt the model. Probably hundreds!
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- Frederick Law @ Jonathan Corsico on Jul 8, 2019 11:26 AM
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  Folder in part?
  Or assembly?
  
  Try turn off auto rebuild?
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Jonathan Corsico Jul 8, 2019 8:46 PM
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Folder is in a multi-body, multi-part file.

All of the features I am trying to add to the folder are at the bottom of the feature tree (in other words, I'm not cherry picking different features to add - instead, I'm simply selecting all of the features at the bottom of the tree in one big block, and then attempting to add them to a folder).
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- Alex Lachance @ Jonathan Corsico on Jul 8, 2019 8:53 PM
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  I'm a fan of working with folders in multi-part files but I probably don't work with parts that are as big as yours. Nonetheless, I have never experienced what you are experiencing.
  
  Do you have hidden messages? Perhaps there is one prompting you something and you clicked yes and checked ''Never show again''.
  
  Do you work with big models? The biggest multi-body part I've worked with were 30 bodies but they weren't very complex. The more complex ones generally have between 6 to 12 bodies.
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  - Jonathan Corsico @ Alex Lachance on Jul 12, 2019 1:44 PM
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    Total body count is around 400. It's a weldment.
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Chris England Jul 12, 2019 1:59 PM
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Like Frederick suggested, try turning off automatic rebuild.
If it's still rebuilding, try running the attached macro before you make a folder.
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Dan Eldred Jul 12, 2019 2:46 PM
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i just used a macro to create a part with 300+ features. i then highlighted 100 features and add them to a folder. it was instant; no rebuild. Does your file have external references to an assembly?
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- Jonathan Corsico @ Dan Eldred on Jul 12, 2019 2:51 PM
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  No external references to an assembly. But it does have several part files inserted as bodies (in addition to the base weldment bodies).
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  - David Suelflow @ Jonathan Corsico on Jul 12, 2019 3:22 PM
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    Instead of inserting parts into parts, what we do is save the part to a Parasolid then import it into the other part. This seems to have sped things up for us. We're still on 2017 so I'm not sure about the rebuild issue, I use folders religiously and never seem to have your issue.
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