Performance gets down as more Elements I add on Fusion 360

[Anonymous]

to work with fusion 360 gets harder and harder (slower) as more content I add in my design. Fusion is just not usable if its not possible still to work smootly if adding more than a few elements in the design...  Any ideas?

I use the following setup:

HP Workstation Z440

Intel Xeon E5-1620, 3.5GHz

16GB RAM

SSD HDD

Windows 7 Professional

1 GB LAN

I added a printscreen from ma actual design and recource-mon printscreen for better understanding. exporting the design by right clicking on the browser was not possible because of distributed design...?

I guess the reason for this performance issues is the cloud based working in fusion 360? If I take a look at the performance window I can see that there's alot of traffic on my HDD and the network during fusion 360 is not responding (red)

[Phil.E]

Hi,

This has little to do with the network traffic, if at all.

Your model has thousands of points, lines, arcs, faces, and apparently hundreds of components. This is all handled locally by Fusion app on your local machine.

Fusion keeps track of all these things. This is what is slowing your model down. Too much information.

All CAD programs have an upper limit to how much information you can put into a model. You are near Fusion 360's limit. We are working to increase Fusion capacity, and in the future it will have more capacity, but today this model of yours is overloading Fusion's ability to perform smoothly.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your answer. This is what I suspected.... Is there an other program from Autodesk which can handle this amount of data? Or is there a way to rerduce the data in Fusion 360?

[O.Tan]

Im tempted to run this model on my Mac Pro and see how Fusion handles it

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @Anonymous,

If you shared the file with us I could try to run it in Inventor and see if it can handle it better! My email is james.youmatz@autodesk.com. Unfortunately, I don't normally work with Inventor so I can't vouch as to whether or not it can handle it better, but we certainly can try. 

As for reducing the amount of geometry in Fusion 360, I guess a good question to ask would be what is your goal with this model in Fusion 360? Judging by your screenshot I'm assuming you imported this model. Are you trying to create a rendering, adjust geometry, simulate the model etc? Depending on those answers there's a few things you can do. If you are trying to create a rendering, well my guess is you aren't trying to change geometry so I'd just limit your visual effects in Fusion and make sure that it is optimized for performance. Then perform the cloud rendering. If you are trying to adjust geometry, I guess this is really dependent on what you are trying to change and we can chat about this if this is your goal. If you are trying to simulate the model, you can do many things such as create primitives, delete any of those unnecessary faces that only pertain to the aesthetics of the model, or create surfaces to make the simulation run more smoothly. All in all the easiest way is just to reduce the geometry as much as possible. Delete faces that don't need to exist etc. The easiest example I can give is a bike tire. For example, a tire in real life has treads, but if the treads are not crucial to your design and you are having trouble with performance, delete the treads and model the tire as just the tire.

Hopefully this helps clear things up a bit!

Thanks,