too heavy assemblies

[infallibile_GF]

Hello, everyone. In the office where I work, I am part of those who use inventor, so I press that I don't know almost anything about sw. And then what do I do on the forum of solidworks? Ehehehe.. Wait a minute!
a part of my colleagues recently use sw for some projects. I have a problem with the excessive size of the axioms of the machines designed. In practice in a similar machine, the axieme made with inventor occupies about 10mb, instead in those that realize with sw, which have more or less the same number of components, the assemblies come to occupy easily about 1gb, that is 100 times more than those made in inventor. I think something like that is not normal at all and I think there is a basic problem.
peeking even more I have seen that in these sw assemblies, are inserted parts of vice that a single screw has a weight of about 5 mb!! that is almost like the whole set made in inventor! then asking some colleagues told me that they created screws and configured them all in one file. therefore in this file of the screws there are a hundred configurations, that is for each diameter of fielttatura, for each length of stem, for each type of step, there is a configuration.
I believe that the reason for the heaviness of these assemblies is due to these bookcases of screws that they use and that they are hurt.
not being sw expert, can you confirm that this is the problem? and possibly how to solve the problem of the heaviness of the assemblies? it would be better to use the screws of the center contents of sw. in inventor I use the screws of the center contents of inventor and are very light. bho...

 

[re_solidworks]

Hi, I created the vines and ignored the bookstores. my hexagonal screw, not even too simplified, weighs 80 kb. I have been working for many years with great assemblies and learned from the very beginning to optimize the model.
solidworks is a cad that leaves a lot of freedom to users and from what I see, for many users this is a problem. the configurations in solidworks are a manna, when you pass from this cad to another who does not have them, it becomes very difficult to manage to do the same things.
but you don't have to abuse it, when you do a file with dozens or hundreds of configurations you're weighing a lot. the same concerns the welding environment with the multibody. that of solidworks is very complete and for years it is really convenient to use. but we must not think of replacing the environment together by producing models containing hundreds of bodies, otherwise management becomes very difficult and slow. you have to learn how to read the performance of the models, understand what are the most "read" modes and use those. in the "evaluate" bar there are the tools to control the models and understand how it is better to use the cad.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

the parts of the toolbox, that is the official libraries of solidworks, it is better to abandon them; are heavy because full of equations and variables to make sure that with a model you can get any size.
It is always better to create your own library by modeling it as simple as possible and not abusing configurations.
a subaxieme weighs less than the same group of parts then exploit the subaxis.
for the parts you can create two configurations, one for the complete table of everything and one for the assembly where you suspend the non-important functions (smuses, rays, possible holes, etc...)
you never have to use real threads but always cosmetic threads.

I have written several tips on how to improve the performance of solidworks as well as modeling on the options settings.

 

[infallibile_GF]

I get it. I think my colleagues will have a lot of work to do