Niagara Workbench Performance Tips

Works Software
1 min readAug 3, 2018

When you’re doing a lot of graphics in Workbench the application starts running slow and might even crash. However, there are some configuration changes you can make to increase performance and prevent the application closing intermittently.

Modify the system.properties file

Workbench uses a built in browser (javafx) to view html pages. Change this to use the JxBrowser instead. You can change which browser to use by modifying the system.properties files. The file is usually located at: C:\niagara\Niagara-x\defaults

Open the file with a text editor and add the following line at the end of the file:

niagara.jxbrowser.disable=false

Change Workbench Viewing Mode

If you’re running 4.3 or above, there should be a “toggle preview” button at the end of the toolbar when looking at a Px graphic. This will show you your Px page rendered in a browser.

Niagara Toggle Browser Preview Button

Additionally, check out the article on how to increase station memory.

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