Automatically Load Lightweight option gets turned OFF

Currently I'm using SolidWorks 2005 SP2.0; however, the following
problem is not new with this latest service pack:

I typically work with the performance option for assemblies to load
components lightweight turned ON. (The same is true for Large Assembly
mode.)

For some unknown reason, I repeatedly find that the performance option
for assemblies loading lightweight is intermittently turned OFF without
any user intervention. Often when I assume that lightweight loading is
enabled and happen to be in a hurry to load a large assembly
(especially when asked to do a quick presentation), SolidWorks ends up
laboring to load each and every file while resolving them. (Maybe the
program just senses my impatience level and acts accordingly...)

Please shed some light on the root cause of this highly undesirable
intermittent system option toggle.

Per O. Hoel

 

Per,

I don't know if this is the same as a problem I recently ran into or not.
It turns out that Large Assembly Mode is saved with the file. Normally you
would think that since this was a System Option that it would not be file
specific, but it is. So, if you had LAM turned on, but for some reason had
lightweight turned off in LAM, its conceivable for it to do what you are
saying with specific files, not with new ones, and it wouldn't follow the
settings.

To me, when a System Option works like a Document Property, it sounds like
a bug to me, but of course to SW this was "working as designed", I suppose
without thought to if it is designed properly or not.

Matt

 

Matt,

I understand your suggestion that a System Option masquerading as a
Document Property could be acting to override the System Option itself;
however, I'm finding that an assembly which I open (automatically
lightweight), work on for a while, save, close and then re-open can be
forced to load RESOLVED the second time around.

This may happen as the result of my multi-tasking with the opening of
other unrelated assemblies during a particular session of SolidWorks,
but my question (and concern) is HOW does the System Option get toggled
OFF?

It's one thing for an option to be ignored (or overridden) for some
reason, but for it to be randomly shut OFF is quite another.

Per
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