help with create a slot perforated cylinder

[Anonymous]

Hello, I use inventor professional 2018, I use a computer i7, 32 GB Ram, nvidia Quadro P200. But I haven't been able to create a slot perforated cylinder that I really need to represent in al the drawings and 3ds. I upgraded the video card drivers but it still not realizing the path process. 

additional info: 

my motherboards is Z170A Gaming M5

case is a Cooler master. and a cooler master for the microprocessor. So why it does not process? (i mean if it will take 2 days its the same as if doesn't process as I think no one will wait that long)  those are around 2500 perforations in the cylinder. and I have another with the same amount but the perforations are shaped, so when I tried that the computer just got stocked thinking. Is it something I can do to realize this mechanical process with inventor? 

In the picture, you see some perforations done, it took about 40 min to do this, but I need to fill that cylinder with those perforations and I need to perform another perforations that are even more complex. 

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous

I think you can achieve this finish by editing the appearance and choosing a customised image from the textures library (in this case a knurled finish).

[Anonymous]

Thank you Rashpal

I tried already to do a customized by creating a new path and insert to the surface but does not reflect it to the blueprint, also it tends to look quite degraded and only can be used if I render the drawing which is not what I am looking for. Actually the other surface I have is a louver kind of path, that look like a cheese scraper, you know, in order to perform different steps to fabrication I need to represent several views and sections that I can not produce from an image. 

I other words I really need to cut and bend thousands of paths here. Will that be possible in inventor?

[S_May · Accepted solution]

Hallo @Anonymous,

ich hab Ihr Modell versucht nachzustellen, es hat 4min gedauert (2500 stck.):

Aber warum wollen Sie so ein Modell komplett erstellen? Für die IDW benötigen Sie nur eine Reihe, den Rest können Sie bemaßen (dadurch bleibt die Datei auch klein).

Für die Fertigung haben Sie ja dann die Zeichnung.

Wenn Sie Rendern wollen, verwenden Sie besser eine Textur, wie von @Anonymous vorgeschlagen.

Sollte keine Textur in der library sein, können Sie diese auch selbst erstellen (wie Sie möchten)

MFG

Sascha May

[Anonymous]

Yeah I did that too, 4 min including doing the drawing. the cad I sowed you has 2500 each 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! It should be doable in Inventor. Most of the modeling operations are multi-threaded. You have good amount of RAM and  good processor. I don't see any reason why it should not work. Could you share the files here or send them to me directly (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)? I would like to take a closer look and understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

hanks Johnson 

I will send you the file for your analysis

[Anonymous]

hello,

I did a less loaded 3d that only allows me to make some representations in the blueprints. and only got to fill out the half of the cylinder we produce in the company. I think Mr shiue is correct that to reduce the Booleans can help to perform certain processes. But I wonder if there is something that limit the number of bits that we can do in a drawing made in Inventor? or is just a hardware kind of limitation we drafters will need to deal with? what would be the solution?

We drafters as creator of  the unexisting world need the tools to do it. Inventor is an nice tool so far.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Sometimes it is the way you are asking a feature to work that deteriorates the speed. Suppose you have a cutout that should stop at "next" surface. The first cutout finds a clean face. Once you start patterning each next cutout finds an ever more complicated surface where it has to be determined if there are interfering faces or not. On a large scale it will bring you to a grinding halt.

Remember software where you could use "fast pattern" and "smart pattern". The first one doing the same over and over again, the second looking at the environment before proceeding.

[S_May]

Hello @Anonymous,

would you please test with the AUTODESK APP their performance and then publish in the Post BENCHMARK for Inventor. That would help us very much.

greetings

Sascha May