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Help... assembly won't update

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autocadder
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Help... assembly won't update

I had just nicely completed a die assembly in 5.0 when the customer hit us with a change (that never happens to anyone else, right? 🙂

Anyway, here's the facts:

Dell Precision 530 workstation,
Windows NT 4.0, SP5,
Inventor 5.0 SP2,
nVidia GeForce2, 32 meg card.
I even installed the latest video card driver.

The die was created with SP0. The part profile drives punches, counter punches, etc. It crashes without fail when I try to update the assembly or edit a part within the context of the assembly.

I know one of the first things someone is going to suggest is that I upload the assembly, but I'd rather save that as an absolute last resort. It's a PITA, and it's pretty big as well (24 megs zipped).

Looking for ideas on this. Thanks for any help!

Bill
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Message 2 of 6
autocadder
in reply to: autocadder

BTW: This, unfortunately, is NOT an uncommon experience for me with Inventor 5.0. I expect MUCH better performance and reliability with 6.0. We are upgrading after the first of the year. Will I be dissappointed? 5.0 is my first experience with Inventor. I like the program, but it's the equivelant of AutoCAD r13 with regards to problematic and sluggish operation.
Message 3 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: autocadder

You won't be disappointed with R6 in my
opinion.

 

You might try to open the file and do a
tools/rebuild all.  Sometimes that's enough to fix the
problem.


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BTW:
This, unfortunately, is NOT an uncommon experience for me with Inventor 5.0. I
expect MUCH better performance and reliability with 6.0. We are upgrading
after the first of the year. Will I be dissappointed? 5.0 is my first
experience with Inventor. I like the program, but it's the equivelant of
AutoCAD r13 with regards to problematic and sluggish
operation.
Message 4 of 6
autocadder
in reply to: autocadder

Thanks for the reply, Sean. I'm not seeing that option on the assembly unter TOOLS when I open the assembly, but it is there on part files. It's the assembly file that's giving me the trouble. It will open fine, but I basically can't do anything with it without it crashing.
Message 5 of 6
Anonymous
in reply to: autocadder

Maybe it wasn't there in 5.0  The next step
might be to open each part and do a rebuild all.  Or try to save the assy
as a copy and open that copy.  Try the latter first (as it's
quicker)


--
Sean Dotson, PE

href="http://www.sdotson.com">http://www.sdotson.com

Check the Inventor
FAQ for most common questions

href="http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html">http://www.sdotson.com/faq.html

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Thanks
for the reply, Sean. I'm not seeing that option on the assembly unter TOOLS
when I open the assembly, but it is there on part files. It's the assembly
file that's giving me the trouble. It will open fine, but I basically can't do
anything with it without it crashing.
Message 6 of 6
autocadder
in reply to: autocadder

Hey Sean, great minds think alike 😉 ... I tried copying the assembly so I could delete some unnecessary parts out of it (all fasteners, etc.) in an attempt to "lighten the load", as it were, on the assembly. I can't even delete anything out of the assembly without it crashing. I will try the rebuild on the suspect parts first though. Thanks again~ Bill

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