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working with very large assemblies
greetings, we are struggling with the logistics of creating drawings of very large assemblies. Updates take 24+ hours, even with EconoFast; files are enormous (65+ MB) so store times into WorkManager are agonizing. I'm wondering how other users handle these issues. As a basis of comparison, assemblies are in the 10-50k range for number of parts and sub-assemblies (some shared but not an enormous percentage). Package files for the assemblies are on the order of 125 MB. Also, we are using UNIX, C3600's with 1 GB memory and 1 GB swap. Any of you out there doing similar things and having similar experiences? thanks.
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re: working with very large assemblies
we r using HP J5000 with 1GB memory and more then 1.5 GB swap, not using WorkManager. Our bigger one is made with more then 5k pieces and it makes a 150 mb package file, we use intensive shared parts. mi file is depending of number of view and sheets, normally they r near to 25 MB. We saw dramatic better in SD8 then 7.51. before we needed more them 10 hours and now it is near to 1 hour for each view. With SD8 we can use more than 1GB data and we r upgrading the system to 2 GB memory, I think this will help us. We try to create drawings with few views, better to create one drawing for each one of this large. Our system has two cpus but I think SD see only one and this could be a problem, often first cpu is on 100% and other to near 20% working only for the system I think. We try to ask remote update on the system itself and we saw 2nd cpu jump to 100%, I think this is better way but we didn't try it with this large one, exange file will be really big, but we will test it better with the upgrade system with more memory and HDs. I hope this can help you.
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re: working with very large assemblies
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re: working with very large assemblies
Rick,
unfortunately, there is not a single easy answer to your question since the drawing generation performance (which is the part of the question I can address) depends on many things: used hardware, available memory, size and nature of the model, usage of shared parts, usage of library parts, EconoFast on/off, hidden line settings etc etc. Therefore, I can only give some general hints:
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re: working with very large assemblies
Avoid clashes. Annotation really doesn't like clashes, it will spend a lot of time trying to figure out where it should or shouldn't put lines. We've had problems where we have made simple representations of threaded parts (ball screws and nuts, fasteners, etc.). Check to be sure that your assemblies are free of interferences.
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