For part and assembly models containing configurations, you can manage
the size of files and the time required to save them.
You can use the Rebuild on Save mark to specify the configurations to keep up-to-date.
You can purge cached configuration data every time you save the model.
If you have never activated a configuration such as one defined in a design
table, the model carries only the essential defining data about the configuration. When
you activate a configuration for the first time, the full definition of the
configuration’s model data is generated. This full data set updates and saves every time
you save the document. By default, after the full data set is generated, the set remains
available every time you open the model.
Having the full data set available for a configuration can save a significant amount of
time when switching configurations. However, for each configuration that you activate,
the file size of the model increases, as does the time required to rebuild and save the
file.
In Large Design Review mode, you can use the Large Design Review mark to specify which
configurations are accessible when you view a model. Users can access the configuration
by storing the Display List graphics data. For each marked configuration, the file size
increases as the model stores the Display List graphics data for the configuration.
The following icons appear beside the configurations in the ConfigurationManager:
When you open the model in Service Pack 5 of the previous release of
SOLIDWORKS:
- Configurations marked with the Rebuild on Save mark
are available.
- Configurations without the mark are not available.