Acad to a SW drawing editing is very SLOOOW?

I have an old acad file that I have converted to a SW drw file. I don't have
time to create a model so I am just working with the drw file. I find that
editing the drw is really slow to do any operation. Is there a way to speed
this up? there are blocks in the Acad file could this hinder performance?

 

I don't think there is any way to speed it up. Solidworks is NOT a 2D
sketcher it is a 3d Modeler. 2D sketches are just slow this way.
Solidworks was not designed to do this.

Steve Tietz

 

How complex is the part.

The problem is that SW is not meant to edit line drawings. It thinks too
much about lines you could turn inferencing, and automatic relations off
that should help a bit. I have imported wireframe models from Acad and they
were impossible to work with. Do you still have access to Acad. When our
company switched over we kept one Acad seat for editing of old line
drawings.

Depending on how complex your part is you could probably use the 2d to 3d
utility to create the part from the Acad drawing relatively quickly.

As far as blocks are concerned I would assume that they speed things up. I
can't be certain though.

Corey Scheich