Performance Issue
Performance Issue
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Running SW2004 Office SP2.01, Pent4 3.00 GHz, 512mb ram, windows XP Pro. I don't do this often but am modeling a herringbone gear 24" dia. with 101 teeth. I'm using a swept cut to profile the teeth and everything goes okay with the first cut, then I circular pattern to get one side and it takes a minute but the teeth appear. Now I mirror those features to get the other side of the gear and I get the dreaded hourglass, then the program not responding. This is being done just for looks as I give the gear data in the drawing. Is there a less intense way of being able to show these gears? I know by saving the gear sans the second or mirrored set of teeth the file is just under 13,000 kb. Any suggestions?






RE: Performance Issue
RE: Performance Issue
2) Patterning - Patterning will bring SW to it's knees sometimes and with the feature your doing your going to see this.
3) Mirroring - Now your mirroring "X" amount of teeth over to the other side. you might as well keep it all in one feature instead of 2. Because it's probably going to take as much time to pattern all 101 teeth as it would to pattern "X" amount and mirror it. But proper practice would be to just pattern all of them.
4) 512 MB ram - You shouldn't run less than 1 Gig with SW04
5) Just because your Task Manager says Not responding, doesn't mean that SW isn't responding. That is windows way of informing you that SW is busy. If your CPU processes are completely dead or running in the 0% area then SW has locked up (Maybe). But not till then. If your getting a Not responding and your CPU is busy walk away because it's processing your request.
6) Check Tools\Feature Statistics - for the amount of time a feature will take
Try getting or using Geartrax - www.camnetics.com
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
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