Mold Wizard Performance Issues
Mold Wizard Performance Issues
(OP)
NX 4.02.2
Dell Precision 370
2 MB Ram
Win Xp
Does anyone else in the group use Mold Wizard,and have they had performance issues? I have trouble adding components, where is seems to cycle thru and update every component in the the assembly file. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to add a standard part.It also gets worse as you add more parts and it is also worse in some directories than others.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Dell Precision 370
2 MB Ram
Win Xp
Does anyone else in the group use Mold Wizard,and have they had performance issues? I have trouble adding components, where is seems to cycle thru and update every component in the the assembly file. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to add a standard part.It also gets worse as you add more parts and it is also worse in some directories than others.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.





RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
Don't know much about mold wizard, but perhaps taking out any other variables might help. Try copying the whole thing to a local drive and setting load options to partial loading, from folder with interpart data turned off, and faceted reference sets preferred over bodies. It may not be very practical but that would be your benchmark for the fastest case. Turn back on the options you would normally use one at a time to see if that reveals the cause.
If the directories that are worse are on networked drives then the answer is probably line speed. Also on native systems deep directory structures when searched with the load options set to "Search Directories" will be much slower.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
Try to set costumer default (default spreedsheet aplication)to xess.
It probably run better.
YOu should try it anyway
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
I may be wrong; but for Windows based machines wouldn't changing that setting may be equivalent to turning off all spreadsheet interaction altogether?
If mold wizard needs to use spreadsheets and or references excel in the background then I wonder if is isn't just your excel installation affecting performance. I don't know that it does, but I found recently that the anti-virus software and installing a HP wireless printer affected Excel and the Desktop Explorer performance dramatically on the home computer. If Excel is in the mix and always starts too slowly then you may want to look outside NX for your solution.
Now if this is plausible then it is plausible that changing that setting to xess would also do the trick, but perhaps at some cost.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
All the directories are on a network,so I tried the local drive with no better results. The Top level directory in Mold Wiz has better speed than if I add a part to the misc subassembly or the prod sub assembly.
I've also reinstalled NX4, but it doesn't seem to have helped either. Every time I do something in MOldwiz, I can see on the status bar all the things updating. It seems every link of every part needs to update before I can continue. Very frustrating...
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues
When I looked into it I realized that when I made the mirrored cavity I threw a big pile of components (including thier false bodies) into one mirror part. All those mirrored bodies in one part meant that if anything affecting any one of them changed, that whole catchall component would be flagged as out of date, then updating every downstream feature, pocket, ko pin subtraction, screw subtraction, etc (nearly the whole mold).
By splitting it up and making a mirror part for ko pins, a mirror part for screws, a mirror part for slides... only the actual changed components (any maybe a couple closely related components) would update. If you change a ko pin diameter, the screws don't update.
I got caught out on this one because of the huge difference in regeneration order and method from ProE, my old system.
RE: Mold Wizard Performance Issues