slow performance issues with assembly configurations

We use configurations a lot, and are starting to see some really long
rebuild times. At least compared to parts & assemblies that have no
configurations at all. Unneccessary rebuilds in both the assemblies and
assembly drawings. These aren't large assemblies, dozen parts or so. But
a common denominator among all of them are cavity features in the lower
subassemblies.

Anyone seeing this? I takes me a whole day to update/revise a top level
assembly drawing. I feel like have stepped back in time 8 years
performance wise. SW97 was faster than this on a 200Mhz PII Pro.

ca

 

My first assumption is that you may have a circular reference causing
extra rebuilds. These can be hard to identify but a good place to
start is pay attention to see if you can identify which parts are
getting rebuilt again and again. I believe that someone wrote a macro
that was available for Free that would list all references in excell
making circular references easier to identify I don't recall who wrote
it or what it was called unfortunately. Maybe someone else could point
you in the right direction.

How many sheets is your drawing? Did you use cropped views? these
rebuild 3 times by nature FYI.

Corey