Remember this is mostly new!
Does top level mates mean mates in the assembly?
When i saved the assembly as a part i selected Exterior Faces. this gave me the 45meg file. i then did it again with the Exterior Components selected and it is 28meg.
I am going to look into the speedpak today...
We do use sub-assemblies and lightweight!
Saving the assemblies as a part? we tried this in order to send the assembly model to our customer and it increased in size for 6meg for the assembly to 45meg as a part.
Is there a way to save an assembly as a single part? basically as a "blob".
oh yeah, my IT guy has a 64 bit machine that isn't being used (to many conflicts when used before) so we are going to try it later today. We run autocad too so we hope there aren't any conflicts running both on this machine.
okay guys, i have never used a forum before so taking me time to figure this out.
I have a a Dell Dual Core 2.66ghz. w/3.25gig ram and a Nvidia quadro FX 3450 video driver running solidworks 2009.
As far as what type assemblies????
what we have done is develop our main bodies in a part. This...
I have used Solidworks for a few years now but never full time because of the lack of speed. We are now trying to go full time on this but once again the speed is an issue. We do machinal design with large assembly that average 4000 parts. Modeling seems to be okay but doing the assemblies and...
