Is this normal? As the day goes on, the memory that Inventor uses goes through the roof...eventually it takes me 5+ minutes for every operation. This has happened on a daily basis for me in the past week.
My specs:
Windows 7 Professional, SP1, 64-bit OS
HPE-590t
Intel Core i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07 GHz
9.00 GB RAM
And I just upgraded graphics cards to NVIDIA Quadro 600 (recommended by Autodesk)
The assembly I am working in currently has a shriinkwrapped background from another assembly (containing 955 solid bodies with links broken), 187 open documents in session, and 384 total occurences in active document.
I worked in heavier assemblies than this when I was in 2013.
I find 2-4GB is the normal for when I'm working in decent sized assemblies with up to a few thousand part occurances. I've had Inventor use around 12GB of ram when creating a shrinkwrap or derived assembly before.
Inventor will use a lot of ram when you deal with larger assemblies or have lots of files open at once. Though I have not noticed high ram usage causing lag.
Thats fairly "typical" for larger assemblies or having opened multiple files..
Remember Inventor keeps some stuff in memory even after a file is closed.
Simply closing Inventor and reopening it will clear out the older saved memory information.. Its supposed to purge it on its own though after a set time or something..
On days when I'm really doing a lot of Inventor work I will close it on lunch/break time and reopen when I go back to using it again.