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[#1]

May I ask why you shrinkwrap? I have found no use for it and would like to see why others do.

[#2]

Good for Large Assembly modelling

[#3]

So how many parts you talking about. I have a 263,000 parts in assemblies and subs never had to shrinkwrap..

[#4]

Ok.

Do you think your working efficiently in terms of opening speeds? And in terms of drawing output.

Or do you swear and curse continuously?

[#5]

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jletcher wrote:

May I ask why you shrinkwrap? I have found no use for it and would like to see why others do.

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I've used it to send a model of an assembly to a customer without sharing all of the components as well.

[#6]

I would really like to see your PC specs, and your working speed.

For presentation of large projects (~1.000.000 parts), we have to shrinkwrap basically everything.

For normal work, assemblies up to 50.000 parts (normally couple of 1000) work normally without SW.

[#7]

I use derived assembly for that.

[#8]

At that time I made it was

4 gig ram with 3 gig switch

can't remember the video card quadra with 256 memory

Dual zoen processor I think it was 2.34 GHz

[#9]

That looks almost unreal!
I have old workstation (8 gb of ram, quadro 256 mb of ram, xeon ....) and have problems with assemblies larger than 10,000 parts. So, if I want to do anything bigger, I have to shrinkwrap subassemblies. And best performance i get now is with simplify (FDS 2013) and shrinkwrap (surface), with broken link to original (which are on network, and i prefer to do big things local on other mashine with ssd - it's just faster).

But it's true, i'm still learning things.

Thnx!

Greg