Improving Large Assembly and Drawing Performance

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Large Assemblies withSolidWorks

Kevin [email protected]


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&opics

( What is a =large> assembly?

( What are the symptoms?

( What a55ects per5ormance?

( What ou Can 'o( 3eneral Settings( Hardware( !art 'esign( Assembly 'esign( 'rawings( nvironmentB'ata (anagement

( Summary


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What is a =large> assembly?

A large assembly is any assembly that iscomple enough toD (a out your system resources

Hurt productivity


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What are the symptoms?

Slow per5ormance in the 5ollowing areasD Epen and save

6ebuild

'rawing creation

6otation and viewing Assembly (ating


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What A55ects !er5ormance

&hings under SolidWorks controlD F*+G

&hings under your controlD F +G

Combined 55ort o5 &echnology andCorrect $mplementation


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What ou Can 'o to (anage LargeAssemblies and 'rawingsI


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&hings 2nder our Control

3eneral Settings

Hardware

!art 'esign techni%ues

Assembly 'esign techni%ues

'rawings techni%ues

nvironmentB'ata (anagement


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AssembliesD 3eneral Settings

Speci5ic options a55ected in Large Assembly(ode Tools > Options > Performance

A%ter activating arge Assem/ly oe1e%ore activating arge Assem/ly oe


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3eneral Settings

&oolsEptions!er5ormance No Preview During Open is not controlled by

Large assembly mode


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Hardware

Hardware re%uirementsD Customer !ortalunder System e!uirements

6A( most important 5or largeassemblies *- bit or )1 bit?

Some multi0threading in SolidWorks 0dual core 5orD

!hotoWorks" Simulation" 9ile translation"Hidden Line 6emoval

#ideo Card 0 55ects rotating and

spinning" 4ooming and panning Lower level graphics better 5or speed i5

system at ma ,


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!artsD 'esign (ethodology

2se Appropriate 'esign(ethodologyD Skeleton model techni%ue 5or

large assemblies machines"plant designs" paper processing"etc.

Allows visuali4ing and selectingimportant inter5aces at allsubassembly and even part levels

(aster model techni%ue consumer products" car body" etc. Allows using comple sur5aces as

the base 5or components

(ulti0body

Always manage in0contetrelationships use whereappropriate


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!artsD Strategies to improve per5ormance

9ully de5ine your sketches i5 possible

6esolve rebuild errors

'o not model threads unless absolutely necessaryJ

Avoid using tet 5or 5eatures 0 instead use a sketchor draw simpli5ied letter

Avoi

unnecessary

etail


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!artsD Strategies to improve per5ormance

Sim$li%y

Sim$li%y

Sim$li%y


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AssembliesD How they Work

Assemblies solve serially in this orderD


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AssembliesD How they Work

(ate per5ormance in order o5 speed ,5astest toslowestD 6elation (ates ,Coincident" !arallel" etc.

Logical (ates ,Width" Cam" 3ear

'istance (ates Limit (ates


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Assembly:pertD$n5o and Advice About our Assembly

$n5o 5rom the old AssemblyStatistics now 5ound inAssembly:pert

Analy4es assembly

per5ormance and makesrecommendations

Tools > "ssembly#pert


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Assembly:pertD 'iagnostic &ests

6ebuild 'ata Available

9ile Conversion

Large Assembly (ode

(ates

'isplay Speed

$n0Contet !art !er5ormance

$n0Contet Circular 6e5erences

$n0Contet 6elationship !er5ormance

$n0Contet 6elationship Con5licts

Components 9ar 5rom Erigin

#eri5ication on 6ebuild


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AssembliesD Strategies to $mprove!er5ormance

Avoid 5lat structures with lots o5mates 9lat structures update all mates on

rebuild

Sub0assemblies only update i5

necessary Sub0assemblies are 5ied by

de5ault ,5ast 9or motion" temporarily make sub0

assemblies 5leible $omponent

Properties


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AssembliesD Lightweight Assemblies

2se Lightweight Assemblies Openassemblies Lightweight

Enly necessary model dataloaded

3eneral settingDTools > Large

"ssembly %ode Speci5ic settingsDTools >

Options > Performance

$n lightweight you canD


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AssembliesD 8uick #iewBSelective Epen

8uick #iewBSelective Epen 9astest way to view an assembly

Epen only the components youneedD ='o 7ot Load HiddenComponents>

(aintains mates so assembly canmove

Simpli5y assemblies withoutcon5igurations and regardless o5assembly structure

&oggle display to select

components not yet open

9iltering and new selection tools

Save as 'isplay States


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Assemblies Speed!ak and 2nload Hidden

Speed!ak 8uickly create a simpli5iedversion o5 a large" compleassemblies without losinggraphics detail

6educes memory needed

(aintains re5erences

Works in drawing mode complete /E( andannotation capability

2nload Hidden Hide component and unload it5rom memory

; Kilometer limit eliminated


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AssembliesD 'isplay Settings

'o not 2se 6eal#iew

3raphics with LargeAssemblies

Large Assembly (ode &riggers lightweight components

Controls display options Tools > Large "ssembly

%ode

3or /etter $er%ormance, o not is$lay eges in s4ae moe


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AssembliesD 2se 'isplay States and$solate

2se 'isplay Stateswhere appropriate Neverre%uire a rebuild

ControlsD

!art visibility

'isplay mode

&eture

&ransparency

2se $solate 5or %uickhide o5 multiplecomponents Hide all components that

are not selected

%& > 'solate

Aing a Dis$lay State


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AssembliesD (anaging ternal 6e5erences

External re%erences

can /e vie5e,

/ro"en an loc"e


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AssembliesD 6epair /roken 6e5s and6outing

9i missingBbrokenre5erences nsures assembly accuracy

and speeds rebuilds

lectrical 6outing 6oute 5rom connector to

connector" not pin to pin

Show pin0to0pin in5o in atable on the harness

drawing


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AssembliesD Avoid Circular 6e5erences

Avoid circular re5erences Common during in0contet design

SymptomD more than ; rebuild

Can also occur when mating to components patterns

Exam$le o% a circular re%erence


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AssembliesD Selection &ools

Show Hidden

&oggle display to show hidden components

#olume Select

6ight to Le5tD 9ully enveloped components

Le5t to 6ightD $ntersected components

!re0select 5ace to orient volume

Select (ated &oI

Select a component and all components matedto it

Can Show or Hide

Advanced Select improved

2$ revised

Add to selection drop down

Subassembly Select

Select subassembly graphically 0 ,6(/


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AssembliesD 9iltering and &agging

9eature &ree Search and 9ilter Search 5or a component

9ilters display in window as wellas 5eature tree

&agging

&ag components so they areeasily 5ound later

Can search on tag description in9eature &ree Search


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AssembliesD treme (anagement&echni%ues

!revent eternal re5erencecreation Tools > Options >

()ternal eferences > Donot create references

e)ternal to t*e model Suspend automatic

rebuilds (ake many changes" and

then rebuild the assembly all

at once

Sus$ening automatic re/uils


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'rawingsD Epening 'rawings

'rawing Sheet =8uick #iew> !review a drawing be5ore you

commit to open it

Load Sheet 5rom =8uick#iew>

Load any particular sheet you=8uick #iew>

Epen 'rawing to a Speci5icSheet

Epen one speci5ic sheetwithout opening all the others

6$en to a s$eci%ic s4eet

Previe5 a s4eet /e%ore o$ening


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'rawingsD Strategies to improve per5ormance

Lightweight 'rawings Subset o5 its model data is

loaded in memory 0 5aster

6emaining model data isloaded as needed

With lightweight drawings" you

canD Create all drawing view types

Attach annotations to models inviews

'imension models in views

Speci5y edge properties Select edges and vertices

Set drawings o5 sub0assembliesto lightweight or resolved

6$en a ra5ing lig4t5eig4t

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'rawingsD Strategies to improveper5ormance

Ether 'rawing &ipsD 2se shaded views when laying out a drawing

2sing less views per sheet is better

Enly update individual views

Sensible number o5 con5igurations" section views" detail

views and alternate position views Check 5or inter5erences be5ore making HL6 drawing views 0

ambiguity takes time


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nvironment

9ile locationD +(, '%POT"NT 9iles should be local 5or best

per5ormance

2se Workgroup or nterprise !'( Creates a local copy o5 the 5ile that can

be managed 5or change Enly parts that have changed are copied

over

Con5igurations open 5aster i5 local

/ackupBrecover 9or 5astest per5ormance" turn this o55

$5 must backup" make sure the recover5ile location is local and 5re%uency isappropriate

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'ata (anagementD !'(Works Workgroup nterprise

(ulti0userenvironment

'ata policeman 0controls access to the

5iles

6evision control 0!'( knows when apart is changed

/rings 5iles to yourlocal drive so you canopen locally


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'ata (anagementD What should $ use?

Workgroup !'( 2sually up to ;+ users

'esigns that re%uire sharing o5 components

6evision control

nterprise !'( 2sually ;+ 2sers

/etter with large datasets

verything Workgroup does plusD

(ulti0site capable Work5low capable

(6!B6! Connection


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Summary 8uestions

3eneral Settings

Hardware

!art 'esign techni%ues

Assembly 'esign techni%ues

'rawings techni%ues

nvironmentB 'ata (anagement


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