Large Assembly recommendations for Workstations?

[warrenandy]

We have a user who's job it is to combine all of the subassembly into one large model. These are tire assembly machines with thousands of parts including nuts and bolts. The top level is looking to be between 150,000 - 200,000 occurrences and probably 50,000 - 75,000 unique parts. So we are talking huge amounts of data. Currently he has a Win 7 Precision 64-bit, 16 GB RAM, Quadro 2000 Nivida 1 GB, and a 512 SSD HD. Not too shabbily of a Mobile workstation. But it is not big enough.

So what can we do to get more HP (Pun intended) out of this Dell? Then what would be a recommended monster workstation (It would be for the dept to share, but would be a tower not a laptop)?

[cadman777]

Great!

Titan ... is that b/c you do a lot of rendering?
Or is there some other reason why it would do good by you?

One thing I learned while building this box:
When a lotta read/write happens to SSD drives, they tend to degrade in performance over the long term.

Reading them doesn't a/effect them. It's the constant read/write.

So, I put my OS & apps on an SSD, and my data and swap files on a 15k rpm hard drive.

I learned a lot this go-around.

Thanks against for the good advice!

Cheers ... Chris

[blair]

Yes, alot of rendering, I use Showcase alot and Studio not as much.

There are utilites such as Diskeeper which have add-ons for SSD drives to keep them in better shape.

[cadman777]

Makes sense.

Nice image!

Is it for the rear of a truck trailer body?

[blair]

Thanks,

This one is a protector for the back of the truck cab. I end up with some 1080p videos 30s clips that end up around 480Mb in file size. Quick 30 sec fly-arounds that actually cause my fans to speed up and will take 35-45 min to crunch.

Showcase is nice, because I can get a couple of alternates for finish/color and a simple click and I can have a diffent color.

When you do low volume, high value items most of your "brochures" are digital.

[cadman777]

I guess it's supposed to prevent stuff like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290265/Driver-millimetres-away-decapitation-ducking-crashes...

[blair]

No, that would be "Under-Ride" rear bumpers that are designed to absorb impact and crumple in a controlled manner. Somehow I thing the energy carried by the Corvette exceeds the design criteria we are required to comply with. There are some new standards coming down the pipeline probably because on idiots like that.

[cadman777]

I missed the word "cab" in your first statement.

The operative word for the vette is "idiots".

When I was a truck mechanic, the rear legs were used to keep the truck from running up onto the docking platform.

Nobody gave a thought about under-riding ...

[swhite]

I would start off by making substitutes for each assembly and inserting that substitute into the large assembly instead of the actual subassembly. This wilol cut down the large assemblies file size drastically.