topic Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly in Inventor Forum

Inventor 2012 large assembly

c.lutz — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:35:03 GMT

Were to start....

I'm using Inventor to design large equipment, piping and structures for large plants. I have to break my assemblies down into 2k-6k part assemblies to make them "manageable". I receive some equipment and structures from vendors and they are almost always surface parts and assemblies. I have to shrinkwrap these assemblies so the customer can't modify anything and then they import them into Revit. I know Inventor isn't the best tool for something like this but corporate doesn't want to spend the money to get new software so that's off the table. They have however given me the ability to get a more powerful desktop.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-46E714D8-8D90-4D1D-BD6D-8B30ABF78E50-htm.html

I try to refine my assemblies per the above link....doesn't help that much.

The last thing I want to do is get a new computer and it not improve anything.

My current desktop

Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz

AMD FirePro W7000 Graphics card

32GB RAM

My current Laptop

i7 2.7GHz

NVIDIA Quadro K2100M

16GB RAM

So what I was planning to do is give our IT department this link and tell them to follow its recommendations for a computer, Dual processors i7 4.0GHZ and everything else as top of the line as I can get. One of my main goals is to speed up the shrinkwrap process as much as I can, Right now it takes me a few days to get one assembly shrinkwrapped. And I'd like to be able to bring these assemblies back together, I need to be able to design piping and the building with everything in its home. I know their are a bunch of variables to this but Would a computer built per Autodesks link above give me the ability to do this?

Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly

dgorsman — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:32:43 GMT

This part:

Dual Six core processor (12 cores total, hyperthreading not recommended because Inventor does not take advantage (except Studio rendering)).

... isn't as clear as it should be. Its not that Inventor doesn't take advantage of hyperthreading, it doesn't do a whole lot with multi-threading (things that can be spread across many CPU cores). A dual CPU won't benefit you. You may well be close to top-of-the-line already.

Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly

smokes2998 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:30:51 GMT

would be more beneficial to upgrade to inventor 2017 or inventor 2018

Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly

ShayaGhanbar — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:29:12 GMT

Inventor 2018 is not out yet and even when it is released you probably want to wait for the first Service Pack before installing it.

Inventor 2017 R3 (release number 3) would be a better choice.

Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly

c.lutz — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:05:07 GMT

We are looking to get a laser scanner also so I am trying to get us into at least 2016 so we can import the point cloud in Inventor. So as far as hardware, it looks like a larger faster computer wont help?

Re: Inventor 2012 large assembly

dgorsman — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:51:33 GMT

Point clouds are a bit different. Most of the dedicated programs for those *are* multi-threaded, and so benefit from multiple CPUs. But if all you are doing is consuming rather than processing them then you won't see as much of a benefit.

As far as your current hardware goes I don't think you'll get much additional benefit for money spent, point cloud or no.