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Shrinkwrapping Assemblies

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Message 1 of 19
PACDrafting
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Shrinkwrapping Assemblies

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

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Message 2 of 19

Hi Paul,

 

Did you follow the workflow provided in the help document below,

 

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2012/Help/0073-Autodesk73/0460-Assembli460/0536-Represen53...

 

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.



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 3 of 19
PACDrafting
in reply to: PACDrafting

Hi Vinod

I have followed the instructions.
I've found when using the surface composite it has troubles rotating.

Using 2012 pro SP 2.
Message 4 of 19

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.



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 5 of 19

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.

Message 6 of 19

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.



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 7 of 19

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

Message 8 of 19

Thanks Paul. I have sent a secure FTP location through a private email. Let me know, if you need any help.



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 9 of 19

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.

 

Paul.jpg



Vinod Balasubramanian
AutoCAD Industry Support & Escalation Lead

Message 10 of 19

OK same problem. Will put files on ftp

Message 11 of 19
jletcher
in reply to: PACDrafting

May I ask why you shrinkwrap? I have found no use for it and would like to see why others do.

Message 12 of 19
PACDrafting
in reply to: jletcher

Good for Large Assembly modelling

Message 13 of 19
jletcher
in reply to: PACDrafting

So how many parts you talking about. I have a 263,000 parts in assemblies and subs never had to shrinkwrap..

Message 14 of 19
PACDrafting
in reply to: PACDrafting

Ok.

Do you think your working efficiently in terms of opening speeds? And in terms of drawing output.

Or do you swear and curse continuously?
Message 15 of 19
hunt
in reply to: jletcher


@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.

Message 16 of 19
streharg
in reply to: jletcher

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.

PDSU 2016
4790K, 32 Gb ram, GTX 960 ...
Fancy HP LCD
🙂
Message 17 of 19
jletcher
in reply to: hunt

I use derived assembly for that.

Message 18 of 19
jletcher
in reply to: streharg

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

Message 19 of 19
streharg
in reply to: jletcher

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

PDSU 2016
4790K, 32 Gb ram, GTX 960 ...
Fancy HP LCD
🙂

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