why dosent inventor use multi core threading processing
Hmmm nerd senses are tingling. Or just sleep deprived...
Multi-threading isn't a magic wand that can be waved at any old pumpkin to turn it into a muscle car.
It's pretty easy to break down. In order for multi-threading to work on a process, that process has to be broken down into different tasks that can be worked on more or less independantly of each other. Look at what you are doing in Inventor, break that down into gross steps, detail those out a bit further. Which of those are dependant of each other (FEA, image processing, as noted)? Which are not? The former are a good candidate for multi-threading. The latter are not as each operation must wait for another to finish before starting.
A more general example is operating in a very large database. A look-up operation (match records with field content "Blah", match records with field content "More Blah") can be executed in parallel with each other since they don't affect each other. A generic write operation cannot be strictly done in parallel, since two operations can't change the same record at the same time - one must wait. But with some strategic organization so that the write operations must always work on unique sets of records they can be done in parallel, but it won't be the same level of improvement as the parallel read operations.
If you are going to fly by the seat of your pants, expect friction burns.
"I don't know" is the beginning of knowledge, not the end.
@dgorsman wrote:
Hmmm nerd senses are tingling. Or just sleep deprived...
You should be sleep deprived more often! Good explanation.
Chris Benner
Inventor Tube & Pipe, Vault Professional
Cad Tips Tricks & Workarounds | Twitter | LinkedIn
Autodesk University Classes:
Going With The Flow with Inventor Tube and Pipe | Increasing The Volume with Inventor Tube and Pipe | Power of the Autodesk Community | Getting to Know You | Inventor Styles & Standards |Managing Properties with Vault Professional | Vault Configuration | Vault - What is it & Why Do I Need It? | A Little Less Talk - Tube & Pipe Demo | Change Orders & Revisions - Vault, Inventor & AutoCAD | Authoring & Publishing Custom Content
If you can, post your part.
A different modeling technique might speed things up.
Steve Walton
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.
Inventor 2025
Vault Professional 2025
@r_blackburn3000 wrote:
My part is a simple cable with a helical twist pitch only 8" long.
The main problems I found (and fixed)
-your conductor profile was not perpendicular to the path, this results in computationally (and incorrect) expensive geometry.
-your conductors were not separate bodies, now that computationally expensive (and incorrect) geometry just got a lot more expensive in calculating the merging of those complex eliptical, twisted faces.
The simplified (and more geometrically correct) geometry solves much faster.
Let me know if it is OK to attach my file here as it may be instructive for others.
Oops: I have the twist going the wrong way. 
