Often times I find users waiting for views to update in their drawings. This can be during work in the drawings or even during the opening of the design. Inventor 2012 introduced a new dynamic to aid these user pains called Raster Views. Let's consider for a moment this design with about 3000 total occurances.
When we start placing this Base View into our new drawings, in the past we have to wait a minute or two for the drawing to populate and there are ways to make this faster such as adjusting the settings in the Application Options for our drawing view previews.
Now to make this faster, Inventor 2012 now uses multiple cores of your multi-core processor to process the drawing views and allow you to continue to work inside your drawing without having to wait for the processing or updates to the drawing to update. To identify that this processing is taking place on a view, you will see what appears to be a green processing symboy (personally, looks like a green adaptive symbol to me).
On the screen you will see four framing brackets appearing around your view to showcase the views that are being processed. As they finish they will start to disappear from the view extents.
If you were to look at your CPU monitor during this process you would see your different cores spiking in usage and then throttling back down after the views are created.
Now if for some reason you experience any issues or simply do not like this idea of raster views you can turn off the ability for Inventor to do this with an Applicaiton Option on the Drawing Tab. I have seen a few systems that just didn't quite mesh with the mult-core processing that Inventor is trying to perform or models with overly complex Level of Detail updates or Vaulting restrictions.
When Inventor 2012 first came out I did a nice video and post on the drawing enhancements. Feel free to see more about the Raster views here as well as the ability to change the orientation of the view after initial placement.
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