SOLIDWORKS 2019 includes performance and workflow changes across many
areas for increased workflow complexity and larger models.
Installation Manager
The SOLIDWORKS® 2019 Installation
Manager uses new download methods that can deliver up to twice the download speed
compared to SOLIDWORKS 2018 and earlier.
The new download methods also provide a solution in cases where the
Installation Manager failed to download installation files.
Detailing and Drawings
Performance when creating, opening, and editing hole tables has
improved for large numbers of holes and for the combination of circular and
noncircular holes.
The time it takes to switch from a model to its
drawing under the following conditions is improved:
- Both the model and its drawing are open.
- You make changes in the model that do not change
geometry.
- The drawing has multiple sheets.
- Automatic view
update is on.
Model Display
SOLIDWORKS 2019 uses a new graphics architecture for parts and
assemblies. This architecture provides a more responsive, real-time display
especially for large models. It takes advantage of modern OpenGL (4.5) and
hardware-accelerated rendering to maintain a high level of detail and frame rate
when you pan, zoom, or rotate large models. These performance improvements scale up
with the higher-end graphics cards not fully supported in previous versions of
SOLIDWORKS. These changes do not apply to drawings.
To turn on the new architecture in SOLIDWORKS 2019, select
and select Enable graphics performance
(Beta feature, requires SOLIDWORKS restart).
Pack and Go
When you select Include
drawings, an option in System
Options improves performance by limiting the search for drawings to
specific folders. In , Include subfolders for drawings search
in Pack and Go searches all subfolders for drawings. If you clear
this option, SOLIDWORKS limits its search for drawings to the folders of the
packaged models and folders specified in .
Routing
| Improved Feature |
Description |
| Routing Component Wizard |
When you use the Routing
Component Wizard of the Routing Library Manager, the creation of routing
library components is more efficient. The wizard displays only the
essential tabs that you use to create routing components for
different types of routes. The wizard responds faster when you
switch tabs. In the tab, all component-specific column headers are
displayed. The design table information is locked. You can edit
column headers in the wizard and click Next to apply the changes to
the design table.
In the tab, components with multiple configurations load
only the active configuration parameters. Other configuration
data is loaded only when you select the configuration in the
tab, which accelerates the tab's performance.
|
| Piping and Tubing
Database |
|
Removing Components
|
To remove components from the database,
in Select
Components, select Remove Components and
click Save.
|
|
Scanning Components
|
To list components not present in the
database, in Scan for
library components which are not in the
database, click Scan. To include
scanned components in the database, select Add Components and
click Save.
|
The saving and scanning operations are faster. In
, select Scan excluded
folders, and click Scan to scan components in the excluded
folders. After the scanning process completes, the table
displays components that are not in the database. In the table,
you can edit and save Type and Sub
Type for components.
When you click Save, the SOLIDWORKS software opens and saves
only selected components with modified Type or Sub Type, and adds them to the
database.
|
| Import Data Dialog Box |
In , Start and
Synchronize are not
available simultaneously, to improve workflow. |
| Select Route and Component
Type |
In the Route Component Wizard, the Select Route Type and Select Component Type tabs are
combined to improve access. |
| Design Table Check |
In the Routing Component Wizard, when no Design Library
exists for a part, the Design Table
Check node is available. A message prompts you to
create a new design table. Previously, if no
design table existed for a part, the
Design Table Check node was unavailable and there
was no option to create a new design table.
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| Images for Connectors in the
Routing Library Manager |
The Routing Library Manager includes images in Route and Component Types, Routing Geometry, and Routing Functionality Points nodes
of the Routing Component
Wizard tab. The images help you
identify the components.
|
Toolbox
You can temporarily disable the automatic update of mates between a
Toolbox component and a non-Toolbox component by clearing Automatic Update for Toolbox Mates. By disabling
the automatic update, you can improve performance by making it quicker to edit
mates, add mates, and manipulate components.
When you disable automatic mate updates:
- Toolbox fasteners do not move if you move the components to
which they are mated. Non-Toolbox components do move.
- Performance improves when working in assemblies with
several Toolbox components inserted and mated at the top level. For example,
in assemblies with hundreds of fastener stacks at the top level, updating
these mates can impact assembly performance when performing actions like
solving mates, adding mates, and dragging components.
Performance improvements do not occur when Toolbox components are:
- In subassemblies because the option affects solving mates
at the top level only.
- Patterned, because patterned instances do not use
mates.
You must disable Automatic Update for
Toolbox Mates each time you open an assembly. See Disabling Automatic Mate Updates in Toolbox.
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D
The performance is improved for Route
Cables and Route Harness
tools. The performance is faster when you use the Route
Wires tool for routing of a large number of wires in an
assembly.
When you click Route Library Manager starts
quickly and you can define components faster for SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D.
SOLIDWORKS PDM
SOLIDWORKS PDM has improved performance of loads for large assemblies and
complex reference structures in the Contains and
Where Used tabs.
You can more quickly complete operations such as moving, dragging, browsing,
renaming files, and adding a large number of files to a folder that has many files.
You can also check in assemblies with virtual components much faster.
Browsing speed has improved while working on integrated search
results.
The elimination of unnecessary interface refreshes speeds up your browsing
experience, including folders with many locally cached files.
SOLIDWORKS Manage
Performance is improved when you synchronize SOLIDWORKS PDM objects
with a large number of files and folders. The Synchronization details dialog box displays the synchronization
steps.
To open the Synchronization details dialog
box:
- Edit a SOLIDWORKS PDM object.
- In the dialog box, navigate to the Connection page.
- Select Show synchronization
steps.
- Click OK.
Simulation
There are improvements in overall stability and performance while solving a
simulation, especially for linear static studies with multiple load cases.
A major driver of the performance improvements is based on the fact
that the solution formulation is restructured for optimized performance. The
optimized reconfiguration is limited to the Intel Direct Sparse solver only.
Noticeable improvements in solution time are observed for linear static studies with
up to 25 load cases. Note the following:
- The optimized performance of the Intel Direct Sparse solver is realized for
Pressure, Force, and Torque load types. All other load types, connectors, and
non-zero prescribed displacements cannot vary from one load case to another, or
else you will not observe any performance benefit during the solution.
- There are not any performance improvements for these cases: linear static
studies with load cases defined with no-penetration contacts, virtual wall
contacts, distributed beam loads which vary across load cases, loads on beam
vertices, and extension only or compression only springs.
- For linear static studies with multiple load cases, the performance benefit
comes from the factorization of the global stiffness matrix. The global
stiffness matrix factorization (which consumes the majority of the total
solution time) is done only once, as the stiffness matrix is exactly the same
for every load case.
eDrawings
View manipulations and assembly component selections are faster in
eDrawings®.
To improve performance, click and select Graphics boost and
Fastest speed.