Indexing running forever with calculated columns

I want to use an InfoCube as a source in Business Objects Explorer. So I defined a universe on top of the InfoCube using Information design tool along some calculated columns (similar to calculated key figures in BEx query).
The indexing used to work fine with the default keyfigures in the InfoCube. I started using the newly created calculated columns and now the indexing runs for hours and does not complete until I remove the calculated columns. Is this a performance issue, if yes please do let me know how to fix it.
Thank you

Hi Pavan,
Thanks for the reply. I will try doing that and will get back to yo.
The relational data foundation of this universe was defined over an InfoCube and it did not have any primary keys for dimension tables (master and text) nor the foreign keys (fact table). Does this also affect the performance of explorer?

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