Ok, I have a sheetmetal part with a large (101x248) identical pattern of small rectangular extruded cuts that is mirrored across the longitudinal centerline. These rectangles have separately-modeled full radii which are reference patterned. I have made it a family table, because of concerns about regeneration times in assemblies. The generic has a 2x2 pattern on each side of the centerline, with a cosmetic sketch of the pattern area (simple rectangles), while the instance eventually needs to have the full 101x248 pattern. A similar part will end up having a 30 x 858 pattern, also mirrored.
I have not yet successfully regenerated this instance with the full pattern. I have had some success with smaller patterns.
I'm running Creo 2.0 M040 on a Dell T5400 with a Xeon E5405 2 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM. It appears to be using all four cores, and less than 2 GB of memory.
I set this thing to regenerate the whole pattern over the weekend, and when I got back this morning, it appeared as if Creo had gotten lost in the weeds.
Would I be best off:
1) expanding the instance pattern little by little (say, do the 101, then add the 248 2 rows at a time), and saving between verifications,
2) suppressing the rounds until the rectangular pattern is successfully regenerated, saving, then regenerating with unsuppressed rounds,
3) combining options 1 and 2, or
4) should I just kill this and restart and hope that it doesn't go off into the weeds, again?
The part is essentially a screen, and I HAVE to regenerate this at least once, so that I can have a DXF and a drawing for the part manufacturer. The rectangles are patterned identically, not generally, and the radii are separate features that are reference patterned. I can't share the part file because of IP concerns.
For what it's worth, I've also tried to do this with the radii encompassed in the sketch for the cell, but that took way longer to regenerate a 10x10 pattern than doing it with the reference-patterned radii did.
Nothing else is running on the machine, except Creo, and Creo's CPU usage hovers around 26%.
Thanks,
Tracy
I have not yet successfully regenerated this instance with the full pattern. I have had some success with smaller patterns.
I'm running Creo 2.0 M040 on a Dell T5400 with a Xeon E5405 2 GHz processor and 4 GB of RAM. It appears to be using all four cores, and less than 2 GB of memory.
I set this thing to regenerate the whole pattern over the weekend, and when I got back this morning, it appeared as if Creo had gotten lost in the weeds.
Would I be best off:
1) expanding the instance pattern little by little (say, do the 101, then add the 248 2 rows at a time), and saving between verifications,
2) suppressing the rounds until the rectangular pattern is successfully regenerated, saving, then regenerating with unsuppressed rounds,
3) combining options 1 and 2, or
4) should I just kill this and restart and hope that it doesn't go off into the weeds, again?
The part is essentially a screen, and I HAVE to regenerate this at least once, so that I can have a DXF and a drawing for the part manufacturer. The rectangles are patterned identically, not generally, and the radii are separate features that are reference patterned. I can't share the part file because of IP concerns.
For what it's worth, I've also tried to do this with the radii encompassed in the sketch for the cell, but that took way longer to regenerate a 10x10 pattern than doing it with the reference-patterned radii did.
Nothing else is running on the machine, except Creo, and Creo's CPU usage hovers around 26%.
Thanks,
Tracy