Sp 4.1 drawings with excel bom

Since early april when Sp 4.0 came out we've been having troubles
opening large assembly drawing. A 10 meg 5 page drawing that took 20
sec to open with sp 3.4 now takes about 10 mins in sp 4.0 and sp 4.1.
Since I had to stay with at least Sp4.0 to be able to upgrade my Cosmos
to sp 4.0. I had to open the assembly model first fully resolve than
open the drawing. 99% of our assembly drawings have an excel based BOM.
Yesterday I deleted the excel BOM in a large assembly drawing, and
inserted a BOM table. The drawing opens fine now. There seems to be
some conflict going on in the back ground with sw and excel since sp
4.0.

 

That's quite an important observation - have you turned it in to your VAR?

WT

 

Yes

 

I have the same problem with excel based BOM. I've stopped using excel
based BOM.

I don't have the problem using the regular BOM.

 

Shame it's too late to make SP5.0 so they might fix that one in SP0 for 2007


John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

I agree.

 

Are you using PDM Works on Windows Server 2003. We found that SP 4.0 of
PDMW is much more sensitive to the Microsoft Hotfix patch being applied
to the server. We saw similar time to open until the patch was applied.
Brad