Krippahl wrote:
Matthew wrote:
As far as performance goes I have created many worksheet references like this with no noticeable performance hit. On some of my larger projects I'm sure I have well over a hundred such worksheets.
You have to teach me how you do that Matthew, because my results are totally different.
The more Xrefs I have on a single file, the slower (and bigger) it gets.
I can't tell you much more than I already have. Perhaps I have faster equipment or I'm just less bothered by open/save times. The performance while working seems entirely unaffected by all the placed drawings.
The files naturally get bigger since they are storing more data and the open/save times get a bit longer but not so much that I would change my workflow to reduce them. I haven't timed it but it seems like about a minute, maybe two, to open a file and not long to save.
This may be different over a network. I am presently working locally to an internal drive, but when I was working in a client's office regularly on similar projects I had pretty much the same experience. There may also be a difference with xREFs. I tend to use them only rarely so I can't say if they would really stuff it up in large numbers.
Maybe the key is to use mostly placed drawings on worksheets.
