Extremely "choppy" performenace

[Anonymous]

Hello

Can someone look at the linked model and see if they can do anything in it.

http://sdrv.ms/1a4G6JM

I have been working on this model for a day or two and this afternoon it suddenly became unresponsive, so much so that I think I am going to have to start again from scratch as I cannot do anything once it is loaded up.

I am wandering if I have too many panels and too many nodes for my laptop to handle.

I have:

           223,753 nodes so far and I haven't finished meshing yet

           about 3400 panels (mix of walls and slabs)

My laptop has the following specs:

CPU: Core i7 3840QM @ 2.80 GHz

RAM: 16GB

GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K2000M

[Rafal.Gaweda]

20cm mesh on such huge model? I think 0,5-1m enough
I hope you have good reason to split every wall and slab for so many panels.
NOTE: every laptop of the same parameters as desktop computer is less efficient

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

Any chance you could delete my mesh and re-upload the model somewhere for me so I can still use it? That would be really be appreciated.

Just out of interest, do you have any ideas why Robot slows to a crawl with this model. I have done similar sized models with lots of panels and nodes in other software which perform much better when displaying the mesh.

[Rafal.Gaweda]

 

Just out of interest, do you have any ideas why Robot slows to a crawl with this model.

           223,753 nodes 

           about 3400 panels (mix of walls and slabs)

[Rafal.Gaweda]

Much better performance in Robot 2014. Try it , even in trial mode.

[Anonymous]

Ok,

So what has changed in 2014 that makes it much better?

I have noticed that Robot doesn't seem to make use of more than 2-3 cores on my Laptop. Have you guys improved the multithreading?

[Rafal.Gaweda]

So what has changed in 2014 that makes it much better?

Robot, graphical performance....

Truly saying by mistake, it opened your file in 2014 yesterday that's why I did not see your problem. Now I am opening it in 2013........them same as on your side.

I have noticed that Robot doesn't seem to make use of more than 2-3 cores on my Laptop. Have you guys improved the multithreading?

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It should use 1 core during work except :http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Robot-Structural-Analysis/Robot-on-2-or-more-processor-workstation/m-p...

[Anonymous]

Thankyou for the explanations.

Intterestingly, I opened the model again this morning and it seems to be working ok now! 

So I am going to use a larger mesh and reduce the number of panels.

I will also get onto our IT dept and chase up the Robot 2014 install.

Many thanks for your help.

[Rafal.Gaweda]

Please let me know, when you finish model , final number of nodes \ FEs and number of panels.

[Anonymous]

Does making Robot file and program installed in an SSD make a huge impact in performance?