Dear forum members,
I want to make an assembly with lots of copies of large model. Since I know Fusion 360 to be slow, I only made a partial assembly, which resulted in acceptable speed. That is until I wanted to make a drawing. The global view was very slow to appear and was invisible.
So I deleted about 75% of the components of the model. The global view was slow to appear, but visible. A detail view however, was extremely slow to appear (a few hours). In addition, transparancy was not respected for the detail view, i.e. objects that ought to be transparent, weren't.
Then I found this article in the documentation : help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?caas=caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Fusion-360-crashes-when-creating-a-section-view.html
It says :
Export the assembly to STEP format
That works, but creating a detail view is extremely slow. Moreoever, appearance changes.
Roll back the design history
That works, but is extremely slow.
Simplify the assembly
There are few relevant suggestions there.
My assembly had errors, i.e. yellow and red features. Maybe that was the cause. So I deleted all those features. No, that wasn't it.
It has 538 leafoccurrences and 15769 bodies and ought to be the one in attachment.
So, I deleted more stuff. That worked, but Fusion 360 takes the initiative of deleting stuff along with the stuff I ask it to delete. I tell it to delete this and it deletes that and that as well. So I had to compromise between butchering the drawing and lots of patience.
That version has 286 leafoccurrences and 12637 bodies. Most bodies are in the connectors.
That version is very slow in the drawing workspace. The computer is currently thinking since 18 minutes about making a detail view.
Is it possible with Fusion 360 to make decent detail view of a large assembly in a reasonable amount of time and if so, how ?