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Large Assembly Management

gcook

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Hello folks. I have been tasked to look into large assembly creation and was wondering what other users thoughts are on creating large assemblies in solidworks. I am interested in whether or not you think solidworks handles large assemblies well and some typical methods that you use to handle large assemblies and/or are you able to open the entire large assembly into memory without changing the full master integrity of the models etc?
 
If I have most of the assembly set to llightweight and I'm still moving slowly, I start suppressing parts. A lot of times if I suppress all the fasteners, for example, It will speed right back up for me.


Then just set them back to resolved when it's time to do a drawing or export a BOM...
 
I have turing down some setting under tools options menu then it speeds up faster for large assemblie. Still not as good as Pro-e thou
 

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