Assembly Rebuild Times

[polykracker]

Is there anyway to determine which how long the parts take to rebuild directly from within the assembly? We are starting to work with large assemblies of 3000+ components and would like to know where in our assemblies to 'cut the fat' from instead of opening each component and running feature statistics. We are currently running SW 2008 SP2.0.

 

[JMirisola]

Take a look at AssemblyXpert. You can find more info in the help files, just do a search for statistics.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Certified DriveWorks AE

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M

 

[polykracker]

I looked at AssemblyXpert and it did list alot of information but I was looking for something that breaks down the parts and subassembly rebuild times (ie running feature statistics on all the parts in the assembly and tabulating the results). Can any of this be done in the API?

 

[handleman]

I can't see anywhere in the API where the feature statistics are available. I can't even see a good way to determine how long any given feature takes to rebuild. I did a quick modification to the "feature tree rollback animation" macro to see if I could check the amount of time required to roll each feature forward. However, the times I got didn't correlate to the feature statistics reported by SW.

That being said, it would be possible to iterate through all currently open documents, force a rebuild, and report the rebuild times per document (including parts and subassemblies). You would not have to open each document in its own window, just the top level assembly (non-lightweight) you're interested in. When you open an assembly in non-lightweight mode, all referenced parts are opened automatically in the background.

This macro would take some time to run, but it would tell you which of your parts/subassemblies were taking longest to rebuild. You could then narrow the field of which files to manually run feature statistics on.