Here are some tips for using the Assembly Selection Filters to improve performance in large assemblies and to control what is being loaded into memory:
- Activate the Visible Filter to restrict the tools to only select from visible components.
- Set the selection priority to the appropriate object type to include in the selection set. It is generally useful to set the selection priority to Part priority to ensure all components are considered when creating a selection set.
- Use Visibility to turn off the visibility of groups of components. It speeds up subsequent loading of assemblies or drawing view creation. Upon achieving the appropriate result, create a design view representation to allow fast access to the same results in the future.
- Use the Assembly Selection Filters to create design view representations for drawing files. For example, when you place a view using a design view that was captured by the All in Camera tool, only objects in the Camera's view plane are computed, thus increasing performance and increasing capacity. This applies to design views created when working with any of the Component Selection commands.