time saving
time saving
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Hello all,
Using NX2 under TC9.1.2.10
We work with big assemblies up to 12000 parts. My boss insists on having the machine we design totally assamble, which means at some point we have to open the complete assembly. This is about half an hour waiting time, and longer when we have some saving to do or loading errors.
We are working on our procedures to reduce the time, but we also think we could improve a lot with hardware and software changes. For instance, we are considering passing to linux and forget windows alltogether.
Any experience regarding time and big assemblies??
Using NX2 under TC9.1.2.10
We work with big assemblies up to 12000 parts. My boss insists on having the machine we design totally assamble, which means at some point we have to open the complete assembly. This is about half an hour waiting time, and longer when we have some saving to do or loading errors.
We are working on our procedures to reduce the time, but we also think we could improve a lot with hardware and software changes. For instance, we are considering passing to linux and forget windows alltogether.
Any experience regarding time and big assemblies??





RE: time saving
are you already using simplified representations?
Regards
RE: time saving
At the beginning we also use facets, but them dismiss it because when we load the assemblies is always to work with it, and facets are worth only to visualise and make pictures (no possible to take measures, etc,..)
We also use layers to avoid loading nuts and bolts, which are a big part of the components.
However, we are still working on it. Any suggestions wellcome!!
Any experience under other operating systems than windows?
Thanks in advance
RE: time saving
as far as I know, using 64-bits O.S. won't speed up anything, it will only allow for more informations to be kept in memory (i.e. more components, or more facets, etc...). But, if you use 64-bits O.S. with very large amount of RAM (32 GB or more), then you could possibly set up a virtual disk and load all the UG program and work in this virtual disk (i.e. in RAM !!!), thus having read/write operations something like 1000 times faster. Then I fear the processor will be your bottleneck...
Regards
RE: time saving
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