What is the best setting for shrinwrapping an assembly?
I've found shrinkwrapping it as a surface causes problems with the video card when rotating the model and placing views on a drawing.
Regards
Hi Paul,
Did you follow the workflow provided in the help document below,
If you are seeing some issues, can you elaborate about the problem and which version of Inventor you are seeing this issue. Looking forward to your reply.
Hi,
How big is the assembly. Can you able to change the graphics settings in Application options to Compatibility view or software graphics and test.
Do let me know your thoughts.
Hi Vinod
Assembly has about 2000 occurrences.
Tried different graphics settings. Still no good.
It actually struggles in drawing mode to.
Works quite well on single solid body derived setting.
Only problem is the compute time is slower compared with the surface setting when updating the derived assembly.
Regards
Paul.
Hi,
It looks like we might need to analyze your data. I tried with a simple model and couldn't able to reproduce the behavior. Do let me know, if you would like to share the dataset. I will arrange for a secure FTP location.
Hi Vinod
I'm happy to put something on ftp site. However it wont be the complete model just a small sub assembly due to confidentiality.
Please send me details.
Thanks
Thanks Paul. I have sent a secure FTP location through a private email. Let me know, if you need any help.
Can you also confirm whether you can reproduce the problem, if you create Shrinkwrap using the following settings.
There are issues sometimes if the following options marked in red are checked when creating Shrinkwrap of surface parts.
May I ask why you shrinkwrap? I have found no use for it and would like to see why others do.
So how many parts you talking about. I have a 263,000 parts in assemblies and subs never had to shrinkwrap..
@Anonymous wrote:May I ask why you shrinkwrap? I have found no use for it and would like to see why others do.
I've used it to send a model of an assembly to a customer without sharing all of the components as well.
I would really like to see your PC specs, and your working speed.
For presentation of large projects (~1.000.000 parts), we have to shrinkwrap basically everything.
For normal work, assemblies up to 50.000 parts (normally couple of 1000) work normally without SW.
At that time I made it was
4 gig ram with 3 gig switch
can't remember the video card quadra with 256 memory
Dual zoen processor I think it was 2.34 GHz
That looks almost unreal! 🙂
I have old workstation (8 gb of ram, quadro 256 mb of ram, xeon ....) and have problems with assemblies larger than 10,000 parts. So, if I want to do anything bigger, I have to shrinkwrap subassemblies. And best performance i get now is with simplify (FDS 2013) and shrinkwrap (surface), with broken link to original (which are on network, and i prefer to do big things local on other mashine with ssd - it's just faster).
But it's true, i'm still learning things.
Thnx!
Greg
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