Curse you technology

"Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ" (doge-supreme) 02/10/2014 at 16:21 • Filed to: None

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Trying to make a drawing in Solidworks of a fairly large assembly, and I'm hitting the memory wall to where it wont let me do a high quality view, and I'm not running a slow computer by any means. i7 3.07GHz, 12 gb of RAM, cant remember what graphics card it has. It scores 7.5 across all ratings for performance, except data transfer rate.

Here's an Escort for your time.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ 02/10/2014 at 16:33

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Do you have a second hard disc (hopefully a quick one) that you could dedicate to virtual memory?

promoted by the color red > Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ 02/10/2014 at 16:39

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Solidworks! I spent the better part of an hour rendering a simulation of an assembly, finding out that I needed a small correction, re-meshing, and re-running the simulation.

It makes sense that something written by bloody Frenchmen would choke when asked to work hard.

CobraJoe > Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ 02/10/2014 at 17:00

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Still better than the problems I'm having in Autodesk Inventor today.

I changed the width of a square sketch at the very beginning of a part, which broke a whole bunch of other features (because of course it would, it's never that simple), and when I tried to redefine a plane to the surface it was originally attached to, my whole model just disappeared.

No idea why that happened, and thankfully a quick Undo brought it back. I did finally get it to work, though I'm not sure how or why either.

Mustafaluigi > Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ 02/10/2014 at 17:35

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Just because you have a decent processor and a lot of ram, you need a decent card. On big assemblies you are going to need a Quadro or FirePro to be able to run at decent frame rates. Yes ram is needed for large assemblies and having a lot of individual parts open but being able to look at and render a huge assembly you need the card to back it up. What are you using for your GPU?

TheOnelectronic > Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ 02/10/2014 at 17:46

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It may be Video RAM you're running out of, especially if you don't remember what card you've got. I hit that limit doing 3d work in Blender quite frequently.