Large Assembly Drawings
Large Assembly Drawings
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Hey Everyone:
Can anyone provide me with some suggestions on how deal with large assembly drawings (100-800 parts in the assembly). Seems like catia gets very slow or unstable when dealing with large assembly drawings.
Thanks
ryengnut
Can anyone provide me with some suggestions on how deal with large assembly drawings (100-800 parts in the assembly). Seems like catia gets very slow or unstable when dealing with large assembly drawings.
Thanks
ryengnut





RE: Large Assembly Drawings
Use cache mode to load your assembly. I've managed to create a drawing from 3000 part assy with exact views using cache. Of cause amount of memory consumption is dependant of
number of different parts in assembly. In my case there were ca. 800 different parts.
You can also use approximate views to generate your drawing from very large assemblies. We've made drawings from complete paper machine line assemblies w/ approximate views.
RE: Large Assembly Drawings
RE: Large Assembly Drawings
I may be wrong on this one but what is the use of trying to create "Exact views" with cache mode? Don't you have to use "Approx View or CGR" to have any use of the cache mode?
When I use "Exact views" the design geometry (not the cgr) is loaded.
/Akesson
RE: Large Assembly Drawings
If you use cache mode and project an exact view only necesary information from parts is loaded, not all. This is so called brep mode. This way memory consumption is more echonomical than using design mode. Of cause it takes more memory than projecting a view in approximate or cgr mode.
RE: Large Assembly Drawings
Thanks, now I've learned something today.
Useful information when working with large assembly drawings.
RE: Large Assembly Drawings
My previous explanation about brep mode applies only for folder based usage of Catia for older releases. R15 is first release that has this ability when Catia is used with VPM (I don't know what is the situation with other database based PLM programs)
RE: Large Assembly Drawings