Hello All,
I have a large assembly which is composed of several sub assemblies and over 400 unique components. I have created, what I believe are, lightweight reps (in terms of memory usage) of all of the sub assemblies in order to make my top level assembly more managable. However, I am not having as much succes as I would have hoped. I know PTC builds in several useful simplified reps such as the "graphic" rep but I am just not sure how "lightweight" they really are. For instance I have a sub assembly which occurs 40+ times in my top level assembly. Inside that sub assembly are over 200 small parts, a lot of which are internal. What I have done in that particular assembly was created a simplified rep which consists of only the externally visible parts. Thus, my sub assmebly went from 200+ parts to 8. It would seem to me that this rep would be much lighter than the graphics rep of the entire sub assembly but this could be my lack of understanding about what is really going on in the graphics rep.
So now for my question... Is there a way to determine the efficiency or file size of a simplified rep? Also does anyone have any suggestions for improving model performance?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit with PRO/E Wildfire 4.0 - 64-bit with an Intel 2.3GHz i7 processor, 8GB ram, & an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB graphics card.
While I am on the subject of operating systems, with the 64-bit version of WF4 and Windows 7 do I still need to manually do some sort of "GB Switch" in order to take advantage of all the RAM? Or maybe a better question to ask is, is there anything I need to do in order to take advantage of all the RAM my machine has? I recall running the 32-bit version of WF4 on Windows XP one had to manually activate the 3GB switch.
Thanks in advance,
Mike