SYSTEM REUIREMENTS

[karthikpadamati31]

Hello All,

I want to share my inventor issues happening from last weeks. As I've to simultaneously work on 3-4 projects a day, I will be opening 3-4 inventor project files. From last few weeks, when I am working on a big scale assembly (Approx 100-200mb) I will be crashed automatically. It's been many times from last few days. Is it due to opening 3-4 project files (I don't think so, I used to work this way before too) or do I need to increase my system capabilities? 

Please let me know. It would be a great help.

My present system details:

  

Graphic Card : Radeon RX 580 Series.

TIA.

Regards,

Kar

@johnsonshiue @JDMather @SBix26

[mslosar]

You'll likely hear more memory is better, and yeah, it is, but we work with large scale assemblies that that hear and my memory usage never really crosses 4-5GB in inventor, rare occasion 7-8GB and that's on a machine with 64.  I wouldn't think 32 would be enough to crash out an assembly of that size. I've opening projects on older machines with 32GB that had 700MB of files to open as well.

The old standbys are make sure your video card drivers are up to date, and try running Inventor with Software Graphics (application options, hardware tab) to see if it makes a difference.  Worst case, maybe run a memory check to make sure your DIMMs are in good working order.

Do you have enough hard drive space? Large swap file? etc.  If your drive gets too low on space, stuff like that can happen as well.

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

It's not a good practice to have several files at the same time.

Nvidia graphics cards always work better than other brands.

There are several documented practices to work with big assembly, ex:

Use several LOD (now in v23 Model States) to suppress some "assembly zones" while you are working in other zones (or parts or sub-assemblies)dividing the Main assembly into smaller assemblies. Theoretically, when you suppress a portion of the assembly, it's the same as working with a smaller assembly, regarding memory, graphics, processor, etc, since the suppressed portion doesn't be processed.

Check if the red cross is on and fix the issues, most of the time the shutdown is caused by an inconsistency/error in the model.

[karthikpadamati31]

Even I used to work with pretty large scale assemblies. I didn't have an issue at that time(atleast not frequently). And yes, I've plenty of space in my drives. Let me run a memory check & see.

Thank you.

[JonathanKruger]

To add to all the relevant information added above.

Are you working off a network drive? If you are could you test the datasets off your local drive?

Have you run a sfc /scannow? If not could you try and see if there are any issues as Windows can also cause stability issues over and above driver issues.

Could you list all your specs? 

CPU : Ryzen 7 2700X

Ram: 32Gb What frequency 

Operating System SSD/HDD and how much free space you have

GPU: 

Operating System: (Press Start button and type "winver" without the quotes and press enter you looking for something like 21H2)

Most of these specs can be found in your Task manager. Below is samples from my PC for a reference

For reference you can use InvMark to see what performance to expect based on PC specs

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Your hardware looks adequate to me. You should not run into performance problems unless there is a lot of bad geometry. Please make sure all critical Windows updates are installed and the graphics driver is updated (make sure CAD/Studio profile is selected, not Gaming profile). Also install the applicable Inventor updates.

Please send me an email johnson.shiue@autodesk.com. I would like to dig up the crash reports you submitted to understand the instability better.

Many thanks!