Where I just imported the latest iteration of the building, I thought I give you all a quick project update. Currently, the upper level assembly has 4550 parts in it and 10,500 bodies (I need to dig into the assembly to find out why). There’s 383 Sub-assemblies, so there are only 14 mates being resolved in the upper level assembly. Mass properties, though a bit skewed weight-wise, are:
Mass = 48,204,613.98 pounds (24,102.307 tons)
Volume = 1,331,786,532.68 cubic inches (770,709.8 cubic feet)
Lately, we’ve been running into some huge problems with PDMWorks. Last week, I was crashing to desktop quite consistantly when using PDMWorks. I’ve been working with SolidWorks tech support to figure out what’s happening. Currently, there appears to be an issue with a dll file in Windows (x64) that’s partly to blame. The current work around is to have PDM turned off whenever possible. Actually, the only addin I have turned on is SolidJott (if you don’t know about SolidJott, you really should check it out). I’m still missing my SpacePilot, but system stability is more important than anything, or so I keep telling myself.
The project is progressing along nicely, however, and the powers-that-be are happy with what we’ve produced so far.
If you’re working on large assemblies, I’d love to hear about your issues and how you solved them.
