Looking for speed

[Anonymous]

Our company has been using IV since R2 and basically we have been solving most of our problems with IV in house with the help (much help) from this NG. Our assemblies are now getting bigger and bigger and we now crave for more speed. I have used one of our major assembly as a bench test. Previously, it takes 8 min 31sec to open this assy from the server running at 100 Mbps but with all parts and subassys pack-n-go to the hard drive, and opened it from there, it only takes 2min 20 secs. We decided to upgrade to 1Gbps hub on the network and changed network cards on some test computers but we save only 60 seconds (7 min 30 sec) when opening it from the server. Any other suggestions and ideas out there that we can do? AIS R9 on XP Pro SP1 Quadro4 900 xgl 6722 drivers ncabilan

[Anonymous]

Using Vault would be one option you can consider. All checked out components are placed into your local workspace, so open/save will be much faster. -Sami KOZONO Autodesk Inventor Modeling QA

[ArtC]

Does your antivirus check every thing coming over the network. If so reset it to not check IV files.

[Anonymous]

Not very familiar with vault so my question is, does checking out of the components to the hard drive takes as much time as opening them? the reason i ask is, these big assemblies are not being opened to be edited and saved. these are finished products for viewing and analyzed for possible improvements and/or later modifications as technology advances. editing and revisions are done in the subassy level which is very manageable even thru the old network that we had at 100Mbps. thanks for the response. ncabilan "Sami Kozono (Autodesk)" wrote in message news:4255d686$1_1@newsprd01... > Using Vault would be one option you can consider. > All checked out components are placed into your local workspace, > so open/save will be much faster. > > -Sami KOZONO > Autodesk > Inventor Modeling QA > >

[Anonymous]

I'll have to check into this when the network adm is in, thanks. "ArtC" wrote in message news:6529511.1112962928548.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > Does your antivirus check every thing coming over the network. If so reset it to not check IV files.

[Anonymous]

IRC, network hubs have to share the bandwdith (1gigbit) for all of the ports. Network switches have full bandwidth for each port, so total thoughput should much greater than a hub. However, if you have slow drives on your file server... What are the file server specs?

[Anonymous]

Inventor Vault add-in provides another advantage, automatic DWF publishing (DWF attachment option). When you check in files, DWF file will be automatically created from your assemblies. DWF is very compact compared to the original IAM/IPT. (e.g. Inventor 10's sample: Test Station.iam original assembly: 30.8 MB - 120 files published dwf: 0.5 MB - 1 file ) If you can make do with DWF viewer, which can be launched from Vault Explorer (= Vault stand-alone client), I guess using Vault would suite your situation. Hope this answers your question. -Sami KOZONO Autodesk Inventor Modeling QA PS. You may get more suggestions from Vault discussion group http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=101

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all replies. After all tests being made, it is the anti-virus that was bogging us down. Speed difference bet the hard drive and our network drive using our test assy is 40 sec with the virus checking disabled. One thing to note though is that there is only a 10% increase in speed when using the 1 Gbps network connections. Not really a significant factor considering the cost of upgrading. In reply to Shawmann, yes network switches were upgraded. "ArtC" wrote in message news:6529511.1112962928548.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > Does your antivirus check every thing coming over the network. If so reset it to not check IV files.

[Anonymous]

So essentially the gain from going with Vault can be no more than 10%??!! Is this assumption correct?? "ncabilan" wrote in message news:4256d299_3@newsprd01... > Thanks to all replies. After all tests being made, it is the anti-virus > that was bogging us down. Speed difference bet the hard drive and our > network drive using our test assy is 40 sec with the virus checking > disabled. > > One thing to note though is that there is only a 10% increase in speed when > using the 1 Gbps network connections. Not really a significant factor > considering the cost of upgrading. In reply to Shawmann, yes network > switches were upgraded. > > > > "ArtC" wrote in message > news:6529511.1112962928548.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > > Does your antivirus check every thing coming over the network. If so reset > it to not check IV files. > >

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about vault, I never use it but maybe in the future. The 10% difference is between the 100 Mbps and the 1Gbps network connections. "John-IV8SP1" wrote in message news:4256d518$1_3@newsprd01... > So essentially the gain from going with Vault can be no more than 10%??!! Is > this assumption correct?? > > "ncabilan" wrote in message > news:4256d299_3@newsprd01... > > Thanks to all replies. After all tests being made, it is the anti-virus > > that was bogging us down. Speed difference bet the hard drive and our > > network drive using our test assy is 40 sec with the virus checking > > disabled. > > > > One thing to note though is that there is only a 10% increase in speed > when > > using the 1 Gbps network connections. Not really a significant factor > > considering the cost of upgrading. In reply to Shawmann, yes network > > switches were upgraded. > > > > > > > > "ArtC" wrote in message > > news:6529511.1112962928548.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com... > > > Does your antivirus check every thing coming over the network. If so > reset > > it to not check IV files. > > > > > >