Any way of making a perforated part less heavy?
Any way of making a perforated part less heavy?
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Hi, I have a 90/80 cm, 2 mm thick plate that has 112 irregular double holes (i.e. 224 holes) in a specific pattern. I made the holes' pattern in the sketch, I think this is the "lightest" way. The file is still very heavy and reacts very slowly. Is there a better way to do the pattern? Would a feature pattern be lighter? Is there a trick I don't know?






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Woolly
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Sorry...
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Matt
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Silicon Valley, CA
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Pete
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Pete and Wooly's advice to use two configurations is about the only effective option. The regeneration time is not so much a function of the size of the part, but its complexity. Even that is not so much a function of the math to generate the geometry, but all the surfaces that are created. Using the Geometry Pattern option, if it works, rarely saves on the regeneration time. Saving a part with all the holes as a parasolid and then importing back into SWX demonstrates this easily. The part is a dumb solid, but due to all the holes is slow to regenerate. This is an area that benefits from a good graphics card.
There really is no work-around except to reduce the part complexity by using a simplified, i.e., no holes or only holes in certain places, configuration.
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