How large of an assembly can Catia open?
How large of an assembly can Catia open?
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We are having trouble opening large assemblies using SolidWorks and are thinking about getting a couple seats of Catia.
We talked to a Catia salesmen and he said the number one reason people go to Catia is: “Opening large assemblies and Catia is very stable”. Is this true and how large of an assembly can you open. Does your Catia ever crash?
We talked to a Catia salesmen and he said the number one reason people go to Catia is: “Opening large assemblies and Catia is very stable”. Is this true and how large of an assembly can you open. Does your Catia ever crash?
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes





RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
As for crashing it is much more stable now (I am on release 16) although it does crash occasionally for no apparent reason. You can get a warm start to bring back the previous the automatic store although we have no warm start where I work.
Salesmen will always tell you want they think you want to hear and every system is the dogs b0llcks to the guy trying to sell you it.
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
but I agree wit 1old... you need good certified hardware, go over to DS's site and check out what you need to make CATIA run properly.
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
Our Assembly is 40 meg, the whole folder were the models are kept is only 3.5 gig. That includes drawings.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
A star for each of you.
Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
It might be something you would like to know before you buy a 32 bit system for CATIA...
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RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
Here you can find how to manage big assemblies http:
Regards
Fernando
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
The large assembly management was much better in Catia then in SW, regarding stability I can't say it wont crash but since R12 I think I have like 1-2 crashes in a year, no so far in R18. I even tried something DS calls LA&CD, some kind of plugin for smarteam that gives you cgr's on assembly level and that you can load the detailed assemblies when wanted, but that was over kill for this case.
An interesting thing for you could be that SW can read and write cgr.
I can add that I used similar hardware HP XW6200 6Gb ram and XP64, note that for large assemblies quick discs are important, preferably striped scsi configuration
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
RE: How large of an assembly can Catia open?
You can load huge assemblies, even in a network if you know how to handle them (thats why I consider that presentation a very useful document).
In my experience, you can load even a whole aircraft section structure and few ATA chapters as well. This is done more quickly if you will do it with a macro and not in the usual way.
Its true also that on UNIX platform CATIA is more stable than Win (in my opinion) but under UNIX the possibilities of doing your own automation tools are not so well developed (no vba).
It depends also of what version of CATIA you will run...
Anyway, its good to check also http://
Regards
Fernando