topic Re: How to create a rectangular pattern with over 1700 quantity? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

topic Re: How to create a rectangular pattern with over 1700 quantity? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-create-a-rectangular-pattern-with-over-1700-quantity/m-p/5695228#M293369 Thanks for posting.  Interesting problem.   That is a lot of instances.  If my math is not failing me, the total would be almost 22 million.  I'm not surprised that Fusion has a bit of a problem with that much geometry.   So, I'm not sure that you will ever really get reasonable performance for this model.   That said, there are some techniques that can help a bit.  I understand what you are trying to do by combining as you go.  It seems quite reasonable.  However, in a way, this is actually counter-productive.  You want to make sure that you are patterning components (by selecting the component from the browser).  Once you are patterning components, you might actually get better performance if you left your sphere as one component, then pattern the component.  The way components work, the geometry is actually shared among all instances.  So, it should be more efficient.  I would create a large array as a component pattern, then do one single combine at the end.   However, I am afraid that even this technique will not let you get to 1750 x 500 x 25.  I tried just 100 x 20 even that performance was not what I had hoped.  It took quite a few minutes to update.   Jeff Strater (Fusion development)                 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:25:59 GMT jeff_strater 2015-06-26T15:25:59Z