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idw's are crashing or not saving

idw's are crashing or not saving

idw's are crashing or not saving

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Help!

We have completed models, part drawings, and sub-assy drawings.

Now, we need to generate installation drawings with INV 9, and our idw files are either not savable, or will not open.

Our models contain approx 600 parts, and the idw files are approx. 48 MB large.  We are using state of the art computers (P4, 2.0 MB RAM, great graphics cards etc.)

Any help would be appreciated.

RE: idw's are crashing or not saving

what error massage do you get? or does windows just drop inventor? try openeing the files and when prompted to update refuse. AI9 has probelsm with parts lists and its noramlly best to delete them and re insert them rather than try and update them. my pc has a similar spec to yours and the largest assembly I built was 55,000+ parts, so I don't think your running into a hardware wall. There isn't really alot more I can say without knowing which error message you recieve

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