Inventor slow in large drawings
Inventor slow in large drawings
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We are doing layout from 3 of our machines. These machines has about 200 parts each (100 unique) We have made wax models from those machines( converted to single .ipt and broke the link)
Now the 3D world is fast enough, no slowing or anything, but when making drawing, uhhh!
Making anything with the layout takes at least 2 min or even more. I found out that BACKAHL.exe was taking processor and memory and found out that it was just some precise view generator = vain, so I renamed the exe and inventor became little bit faster, alltough now there is error "file not found" every time opening drawing and error "views aren't precice..." when printing.
NOW the question, how on earth to get this faster???
specs:
cpu amd XP2000+
ram pc266 1GB
video: Elsa synergy III 32Mt
assembly:
5 "wax" models ~7MB each
+couple tiny parts
it takes memory about 600MB and when I seems that windows wants to use HD swap rather than RAM!!!(lots of free ran left, but windows says "swap file too small" when opening huge drawing) I made swap larger, but then windoze used it more and became even more slower (not sure, but I'd remember so)
Now the 3D world is fast enough, no slowing or anything, but when making drawing, uhhh!
Making anything with the layout takes at least 2 min or even more. I found out that BACKAHL.exe was taking processor and memory and found out that it was just some precise view generator = vain, so I renamed the exe and inventor became little bit faster, alltough now there is error "file not found" every time opening drawing and error "views aren't precice..." when printing.
NOW the question, how on earth to get this faster???
specs:
cpu amd XP2000+
ram pc266 1GB
video: Elsa synergy III 32Mt
assembly:
5 "wax" models ~7MB each
+couple tiny parts
it takes memory about 600MB and when I seems that windows wants to use HD swap rather than RAM!!!(lots of free ran left, but windows says "swap file too small" when opening huge drawing) I made swap larger, but then windoze used it more and became even more slower (not sure, but I'd remember so)





RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
One of the current problems we're having is that when we do a large drawing, if we close the drawing and then try to open it again, it will get 90% into opening it then crash.
Good luck anyway, sorry I couldn't be much help.
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
ADSK's big push on Rubicon - which is what they originally called Inventor - was how well it would handle large assemblies. Supposedly it was going to redefine how parametric modelers would handle them.
I've not used it for big assy's but am disappointed to hear that they may have failed.
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
you can waste your time if you have inventor automatically making views precise before you are ready, and the solution is to go to the drawing tab of the application options and remove the check for "precise view generation"... then, when you have finished detailing everything and can afford to wait a minute or three for it to do the calc, right click on the view and select "make view precise"...
you'll never get good results printing, without precise views..
HTH.
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
Offtopic:
Does anyone have problem opening the inventor cause of antivirus-program? It took 5 min to open, and when I changed swap file and inventor folder so that they weren't in the real-time scan, inventor opens in 35 sec
RE: Inventor slow in large drawings
i set norton to ignore inventor files...
oh yeah, and you should definitely work on the local machine for performance reasons. look into creating personal workspaces for group projects... works really well.