Sorry for the long get back... the function is just long because of the great number of items. I found that creating QGraphicsItem's takes a good amount of time and accessing the data from the model take time.
We decided to let the load time stand as it is under half a minute for the largest projects including the drawing of the final scene to the QGraphicsView. We did add a progress bar for the user's sake!! Thanks again.
JW
sw developer
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