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Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

(OP)
Specifically manipulating large assemblies (2000+ parts, 7000+ bodies...don't ask, I didn't created the parts)? I'm thinking I may have hit a limitation with eDrawings, but I wanted to see what everyone else had to say.

I've heard rumors of the FX3700 having issues with eDrawings, but I can't confirm them either.  

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Since upgrading to 2008, and my employer having me install various Autodesk products, my eDrawings became useless. My VAR at the time also became useless. So, I had to uninstall eDwgs. Something w/ Autodesk disconnected it.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

I've never hit such a ceiling (but haven't tried, either--that's a huge amount of bodies to manage).

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

I just saved an assembly file with 12000 bodies to eDrawings without too many issues.  She's pretty sluggish, but it hasn't crashed on me...yet.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

(OP)
Dan,
I'm experiencing extreme sluggishness, but no crashes. The customer, however, is completely unimpressed with the sluggishness. Your post goes to confirm that eDrawings doesn't like large data sets...which sucks. The customer, didn't like Acrobat 3D either.  

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Jeff, I think with huge sets of bodies to track like this, anyone's system with anyone's software will probably have a tough time with it.  And if your customer is like some of mine, they're probably not running workstations with lots of graphical horse power.  What else can you do with stuff that large?

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

(OP)
Their workstations are work horses:

XP Pro-64 bit
8 Gigs RAM
Quadro FX3700 cards (yes I checked the driver)
Core2Duo, E6850 @ 3GHz

I got the assembly to work fine in Acrobat 3D, but you don't have the ability to move components, as far as I could see.
 

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Perhaps eDrawings is still built upon limits in the 32-bit environment and cannot make full use of a 64-bit pipeline with fast chips?  Does eDrawings even have a 64-bit version?

 

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

RE: Anyone else have issues with eDrawings?

Paper maybe?
"several sheets to the wind . . ."

--
Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2008 SP4
Nvidia Quadro FX 1000
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 2 Gig RAM

 

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