2006 Performance questions 1

[gunnykiln]

I am working on a project that has about 40 parts (all hidden except the part I am working on). Most parts are pretty simple but some of the parts have as many as 1600 holes a piece.

Here are some performance issues I am experiencing while working in the assembly:

1. I have a master sketch in the assembly that contains the XY of all the parts. Several of the parts have a grouping of about 1600 .032" holes. When I edit a part (in assembly), insert a sketch, select the master sketch block (that consists of the 1600 circles), then click "Convert entities" to copy the circles from the assembly master sketch to the part sketch Solidworks locks up for as long as 20 minutes. I have to kill the program.

So I broke the block up into 8 blocks of about 200 holes and it still takes about 10 minutes to copy them from one sketch to another, but will still occasionally locks up.

I have 1 gig of ram and it doesn't seem to be running out of it according to the windows monitor. Anything I can do to help this?



2. Tonight I have been just mating components together (no geometry was modified) and I still: Do a mate or two, save, then wait 5-10 minutes while its rebuilding.

Can I somehow turn off (not just hide) all the parts I am not working on?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Yes, suppress the parts not being worked on. Hiding them does not help performance, it just unclutters the screen. Suppressing them, in effect, temporarily deletes them.

Also, instead of having one master sketch with 1600 circles, have one sketch with one circle & another sketch with a pattern of 1599 points. Then instead of converting all 1600 hole edges when creating hole patterns, convert & insert just the one hole & then make a feature pattern of that hole, using the sketch pattern of 1599 points. That way, while the rest of the part is being worked on, the pattern can be suppressed.

I think that should drastically reduce your rebuild times.


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[gunnykiln]

Nice tips. Thanks much.