Bolted Connection extremely slow

[Anthony]

Adding of a single bolted connection using design accelerator is painfully slow, each command is taking up to 3 minutes, any ideas ? It's in Inventor 2012 by the way

[ladamczyk]

I have the same problem. I am using Inventor 2012 64 bit edition Build: 190, Release: 2012 SP1 - Date Mon 08/08/2011 with Vault (build 16.0.56.200). When in Bolted Connection Component Generator I click to add fastener then Inventor will freeze for 4-6 min. Sometimes the content centre will come up and I can choose bolts, washers, nuts or it won’t come up at all, so you not only have to wait 6 min but then noting is happening, very frustrating. Something with the access to content center doesn’t seem right here. I know there is a patch that is addressing this issue but unfortunately it doesn’t work for 64 bit version:

Content Center Hotfix ts17309395.zip

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released this hotfix which provides an update to availability of Content Center elements when using bolted connections.

Can anyone help ?????

[Anthony]

Thanks for the info. It seems to be getting slower and slower, like you say you have the same problem and when I try it now I'm looking at 5 minutes plus for it to execute the bolted connection and place the part in the assembly. I find this extremely poor of Autodesk not to have addressed this especially on a 64-bit version of Inventor, I tried the hotfix but as you stated it doesn't work on 64-bit, they need to sort this one out fast as at the moment the bolted connection is so painfully slow it's just not worh using.

[wes]

Hi try this make sure faces and edges are not selected and instead use part prioity and bolts and nuts are quick when they are installed or edited.

          Wes