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Working with large parts (Surfaces)

Working with large parts (Surfaces)

Working with large parts (Surfaces)

(OP)
Hey all. I'm working with a large part 200mb approx and is 98% surfaces. Its got to the point now where the speed is really really bugging me.

What can I do to make it run faster. In the assembly environment you can have inactive parts, zones etc. But in the part environment there doesn't seem to be any of that.

Please help.

James

RE: Working with large parts (Surfaces)

(OP)
Its got 1025 features to by the way.

Yikes!

RE: Working with large parts (Surfaces)

Not a whole lot.  It seems you are maxing out your system, so either upgrade the video card, processor, or go with a 64bit system and 64bit version of SE and increase your RAM.

Besides that, if you are working in an area of the part, create a giant cube over the other section of the part.  This will essentially remove all the graphic details and should speed up your model.  Just suppress or delete the cube feature when you need to work on that portion of the part again.

--Scott
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RE: Working with large parts (Surfaces)

There are a few minor things on some of the view settings such as lowering the sharpness, using shaded no edges, not dropping shadow however not sure how much effect this'll have.  Check your video card drivers are up to date too.

64bit & maxing out RAM, I have 16GB on our 'super PC', is a sure fire way to improve performance over 32bit with its limited RAM.

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RE: Working with large parts (Surfaces)

Surfaces do tend to be slower.
I had to model an area of ground on the site for a job I've been working on.
We had AutoCad drawings of the site present site layout with elevations. This file ended up about 80MB, so I know how it must be with a 200MB file.
Can you split it into smaller files and then put them into an assembly?
I had to model my file as 3 separate ones.
Another thing, are you working over a network?
With single models of that size you would be better working locally.
Other than that you can turn individual surfaces on and off, and use feature grouping to help with selecting bunches of surfaces.

bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.

RE: Working with large parts (Surfaces)

(OP)
Thanks for your help. The part is on a network, I will hopefully be getting a new system. An unused server with quad core 16gb of ram etc, so that shoudl help.

Thanks, James

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