I use Inventor 2012 and am make a very large assembly and as it gets bigger, the longer it takes to place components and constrain them as well as move my model around. I'm thinking it's a graphics card thing as my computer is pretty powerful. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 gaming card right now. I don't really want to spend several thousand dollars on a top of the line CAD card, but is that my only option?
I'd bet your hard drives are the issue for sure then.. Either get them in a Raid 0 configuration or buy a solid state drive (60G "should" be plenty and is pretty cheap $70-150USD max) to load Inventor on and make it the location of your working folder...
Thats my next upgrade too as we are finally moving to Vault..
@jeremyj wrote:Yes it is a 77 MB .iam file.
Why? Like I said thats frigging HUGE for an iam file..What have you done?? Notice the pic ray posted a few posts back.. 200Kb.. not Mb.... big difference
What have you done at the assembly level besides place parts into it and constrain them? Any assembly level features/sketches,etc..? Your problem is you did something to the assembly file that has caused this huge file/slow down.. The worst part is you don't know what you did.
With only 130+ parts I'd either figure out what you did or just redo it.
Maybe all 130 are adaptive. jk
Yes I agree there seems to be something seriously wrong with this assembly. The only thing I can suggest is that he should look at patterning components. The occurrance of over 17000 with 342 parts seems seriously out of whack.
PS this is not a large assembly. I personnally have done 500 plus components on a bog standard desktop computer so a top of the range video card is unneccessary
"The occurrance of over 17000 with 342 parts seems seriously out of whack."
It's just big, not complicated. About the size of a tractor trailer.
BTW I'm not having a issue with this assembly. The OP assembly is much smaller in total part count but his iam file size is much bigger than mine.
any engineering notes? think they do a LOT to file-size (and think I've read of ppl with bad performance with them too).
We've all talked about hardware, but what state are your drivers in? using the latest Nvidia drivers? and checked ALL divers are up to date (motherboard, soundcard, everything, hell bad mouse drivers have been a problem in the past)? A LOT of ppl forget about checking motherboard/chipset drivers but it's the backbone to the system, if they're old or not even installed then no matter the speed of the components they're not "speaking" to each other at their full speed anyway. 1 bad driver could tie up resources and gimp a system (didn't some Spaceball drivers do that too a while back?).
Sam M.
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