Large assembly management: design for scale

Autodesk Support

Mar 8, 2019

Creating a large scale design project is a challenge for many reasons: performance, high cost of errors made early in cycle, design changes, etc. To help you mitigate these complications and risks, we compiled this set of best practices on Large Assemblies Management in Autodesk Inventor. In this video created by our Quality Assurance Engineer, Kyle Gilham, you will learn about:

Hardware considerations for large assembly management
Optimal application settings in Autodesk Inventor
Workflows and features you can use to speed up your work

The video is a great starting point. Once you are ready to learn more and try some of the recommendations provided, we encourage you to take a deeper dive into each major category starting from the those that are more important for you:

What are large assemblies?
Common Practices that may Impact Large Assembly Performance - Learn about common practices that can impact large assembly performance.
Project Planning and File Management - Learn about project planning, folder structures, project files and libraries as they relate to large assembly modeling.
Preferences and Settings - Learn which settings can be optimized for large assembly performance.
Visualization Effects and Graphics - Inventor offers simple, easy to use visualization effects to enable realistic looking models in the viewport.
Express Mode - Typically, an assembly opens fully (Load Full), that is, all component data is loaded into memory. For large assemblies, Inventor provides an Express mode (Load Express) where the model opens much faster by loading only component cached graphics into memory.
Use Assembly Selection Filters to Improve Performance
Large Assembly Modeling Workflows - The various techniques and approaches that are available to model parts and create assemblies can affect performance. Your modeling approach determines the number of occurrences, complexity of geometry, constraint methods, and assembly creation.
System Hardware and Large Assemblies - Learn about the influence of system hardware, operating system, and network on large assembly performance.
Increase Capacity of System Memory

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