Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
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I'm currently working on a large part of a new installation, we 'd like to be able to show future customers and new employers a 3D view of the full installation. The assemblies designed/build by us are for instance conveyors & construktion work.
Does anyone have good tips for moddeling such assemblies?
PS. I'm using SW2005 SP3.1
Does anyone have good tips for moddeling such assemblies?
PS. I'm using SW2005 SP3.1
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student






RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
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RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
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RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
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RE: Tips on building large assemblies (30.000-50.000 total components)
I got things workable to the point that I could run one larger sub-assembly (10000 components, 134 unique parts, special conveyor) on my laptop (P-M 1.6GHz / MFGL-T2-256). I'm really curious about the performance of SW2006, too bad I can't try it yet!)
The sites CorBlimeyLimey gave do show another interesting idea (using 'blank' configs), I'm going to try and put all skeleton sketches and reference (mate) geometry in a dedicated config, then model in other configurations. That shouldn't be to hard to learn to do.
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student