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Best soft for drawings with numerous constraints

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Printed Date: 25.May.2026 at 20:35


Topic: Best soft for drawings with numerous constraints
Posted By: perotto
Subject: Best soft for drawings with numerous constraints
Date Posted: 26.Sep.2024 at 10:12
Hi, everyone,

I work with drawings that have to be fully adaptive. For this, I commonly use numerous constrains and parametric dimensions. For several years, I used Autodesk Inventor (as was taught in university). However, when dealing with 300+ constraints and dimensions, Inventor starts lagging and freezing when I change one of them as the whole drawing has to be recomputed. Recently, I tried Autodesk AutoCAD and encountered the same problem; moreover, their documentation says, that 200 constraints is already too much (https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-improve-performance-when-using-constraints.html). I was surprised when I checked AutoCAD examples and their elements are completely free to move across the drawing.

I wonder, if there are software products that won't go mad in my case. I am going to try SOLIDWORKS next, as it seems not to have these problems.



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