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Hello

When I try to design a perforated sheet of metal, a simple file with many holes becomes 480 times greater in file size on disk than the file without holes. The simple file has 13.5KB (only a rectangular piece) , the one with 4356 holes has 6.48MB.

Even if I work on a pretty powerful machine, the program becomes to operate slow and the pan & zoom movements are not smooth at all

What can I do to avoid the file this dramatic size increase?

Thank you

Ghost Drilling

Thank you, Todd.

It really helped me.

But it's really strange for a software manufacturer to know that it has a software optimization issue prior to version 2014, to release a version (2014) with a pseudo-correction of that issue (what if I really need to drill all those holes on a panel and not just to draw it or to use any other shape than a circle?) and to release future versions (I have version 2019 - 6.20.244) without any improvement for this issue.

It's frustrating to own a powerful computer and a poor software which doesn't know how to use all this power.
I previously used CATIA for several years and it surely don't have such stupid limitations.

It will be a nightmare to design things which contains patterns

I hope that someone from Missler reads all this posts from time to time, since, after all, all those discussions and issues are hosted on their website LOL

Yeah well its probably another reason why they are moving wood module to version 7 next year better core program.

Last year I did som test with it, but correct me if I'm wrong Todd, when Ghost Drilling is set to Yes or 1 (no viable drilling) I thought that CAM still can see the tool process.

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CAD_73 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:13 am Last year I did som test with it, but correct me if I'm wrong Todd, when Ghost Drilling is set to Yes or 1 (no viable drilling) I thought that CAM still can see the tool process.

CAD_73: my colleague from the factory made this test today: no matter of how the "ghost" parameter is set, the CAM still "see" the holes.

Great that's what I thought