Large assemblies

I have a large number of small tubes that I am building as swept
protrusions. There will be >8000 tubes per pathway with three pathways
total. One pathway causeed drastic slow downs in Pro Wildfire 2 so I
wonder what folks find the most useful and flexible amoung the tools
in ProE for large assemblies.

These numbers ideally will be easy to change with a table driven
layout. Any insight is most welcome.

Running on a 2.8ghz P4 with 1 gig of ram

Dan

 

: I have a large number of small tubes that I am building as swept
: protrusions. There will be >8000 tubes per pathway with three pathways
: total. One pathway causeed drastic slow downs in Pro Wildfire 2 so I
: wonder what folks find the most useful and flexible amoung the tools
: in ProE for large assemblies.
:
Well, Dan, you started this paragaph with swept protrusions and wound up with
large assemblies. You haven't presented a connection and it certainly isn't
obvious. To make your situation more difficult and intriguing, you have 8000
'tubes' per 'pathway'. The 'pathway' I will assume is your sweep trajectory. Now,
did you make 8000 tubes (8000 circles extruded once) or make one tube following
one trajectory and place it in an assembly 8000 times?

Actually, in either case, try making the tubes as surfaces. They are much more
'lightweight' features, easier to pattern, place, regenerate. After they are
placed or patterned, you can always 'Solidify' as a thin protrusion later. But get
all the heavy lifting done first with the surfaces and as a last step, solidify if
needed.

: These numbers ideally will be easy to change with a table driven
: layout.

If components are patterned in the assembly, the pattern is easily turned into a
table, even without a layout. Table is one of the choices in the Type selection
(linear, radial, diametral, table). How this would work in a layout, I'm not sure
of, but should be possible.

That said, if you are regenerating an assembly with 24000 components, expect
delays. It would be less a burden on the system to have one tube of each
trajectory type as a representative and a table for each telling x,y position. Is
that what you're thinking about?

David Janes

 

Sounds like a job for 64-bit o.s. and eight gigs of
memory, maybe. HP, SGI, something ... oh, something
Unixxy, perhaps

 

: > David Janes wrote:
:
: > That said, if you are regenerating an assembly with 24000 components, expect
: > delays.
:
: Sounds like a job for 64-bit o.s. and eight gigs of
: memory, maybe. HP, SGI, something ... oh, something
: Unixxy, perhaps

So, what is computing's technological challenge? Networks at 64-bit?

 

IPv6.

Already been done, just being implemented in fact. Uses a 128-bit
address space actually, they skipped 64-bit.

Regards,