[SOLVED] Selection View Search slow

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ikua
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[SOLVED] Selection View Search slow

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Hello FC Team!

That is acutaly not a question for help but a recommendation for usability improvment. I am working with somehow big projects where i often have to search for special parts in the model. I do that by labeling them properly and afterwards I try to find them with the selection view window, which is really comoforable.

This search windows has only the strange behaviour that it works really slow on bigger projects (about 4 sec). Based on that, that is only a string I think the search should not be that slow, cause its only a search for strings in strings. Maybe it is also based on the fact. I would be really happy, and it would improve my workpeformance and calm my nerves, if this search could work a bit better.

Thanks a lot to the awesome developers

ikua
Last edited by ikua on Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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Hi
It is not very good to make a big project in a single drawing
if you have to modify a detail, it can quickly become tiring
if you make several drawings, you can use a detail in another project
if you want to give each piece to manufacture you will not have to redraw each separately
unless you do in the arch. where it is difficult to make a building by piece, although there is kit, or prefabricated elements, such as lintel, door frame, etc.
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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thank you for the answer. As you mentioned it is for an arch project. But will have in mind what you mentioned for other projects
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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Indeed this slowness is something I want to address too. I think one easy solution would be to not select anything while you are typing, and only select when enter is pressed. I'll look at that today
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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Done with git commit f6205c6b9. I think it works pretty well!
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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sometimes i cant believe how fast things work here. Thank you yorik! That is awesome.
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Re: Selection View Serach slow

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Quick favor, OP please fix the typo in the title of this thread + add [SOLVED]
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