You may find that by using some of the other techniques described previously, you eliminate performance issues. If not, the next section offers suggestions for adjusting the Application Options to consume the least amount of resources.
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Ribbon:
Tools tab
Options panel
Application Options
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The following settings on the tabs listed below can affect performance and/or capacity:
General
Show command prompting = Off
Enable Optimized Selection = On
Enable Prehighlight = Off
Locate tolerance control: Lower values can increase performance.
Undo: Make sure there is enough free space on the specified partition to accommodate the size of the undo file.
File
Projects Folder: Working from your local drive is the preferred method. Avoid working on Autodesk Inventor files across a network. When working on a collaborative project, use Vault.
Colors
Background = 1 Color
Display
Appearance Settings
Shadow options can effect performance for hardware supporting feature level 3.1 and lower. To find out which feature level your graphics card supports:
- On the Tools tab, in the Options panel, click Application Options.
- Select the Hardware tab, and click Diagnostics.
- In the displayed dialog box, under the AIRViz Device Manager, you find the information about the Feature Level supported by your hardware.
Turning off shadow effects will improve performance for lower feature levels. It is recommended that you experiment with one level at a time, in the following order, to find the right level of shadow usage.
Ambient Shadows = Off
Object Shadows = Off
Ground Shadows = Off
Other options for improving graphics response are:
- Reducing the number of visible components in large assemblies.
- Use simplified representations for components in large assemblies.
View transition time = 0 Inventor manages view transitions automatically, however, you can override the automatic setting by reducing view transition time.
Minimum frame rate = 10 This option displays less graphical information during Pan, Zoom, and Rotate. This is automatically managed, however, the setting is there for you to manually override the automatic feature.
Hardware
Use Direct3D graphics hardware
Be aware that memory consumption varies with different graphic cards. Review recommended video cards and other hardware components on Autodesk's Web site.
Use the default settings on this tab. If you experience stability issues, work your way down the list of available options on this page.
Drawing
To improve performance and capacity:
- Cancel the selection of Display line weights and Retrieve all model dimensions on view placement.
- Enable Memory Saving Mode. This option may allow you to create and edit drawing views of very large and/or highly complex models that would otherwise experience capacity limit issues. This option is also available in Document Settings and can be overridden on a per document basis within a drawing file. Memory Saving Mode Note:
- increases capacity but will have a negative impact on performance.
- Drawing view creation and modification operations cannot be undone or reverted while the Memory Saving Mode option is enabled. The Undo/Redo commands in the application will be disabled as a result of this.
- Enable one of the Show Preview options, Bounding Box options to reduce memory consumption. The bounding box option displays the least amount of graphics, and gives the best performance.
- Enable Show Preview options, Bounding Box options to reduce memory consumption. The bounding box option displays the least amount of graphics, and gives the best performance.
- Select Section View Preview as Uncut to preview a section preview as uncut.
Sketch
Leave the Autoproject edges for sketch creation and edit option not selected to improve performance and not sacrifice capacity when not needed
Notebook
Leave Note Icons not selected to increase capacity.