AutoCAD Inventor :: How Long For Part Fill / Mold Fill Analysis
Sep 7, 2013
Okay, so it's been a while since I've done one of these, and I haven't done one on 2014 at all yet.
I've got a fairly simple part, it's about 6" long x 3" wide, less than 3/8" thick, without a whole lot of complex geometry to work with. I've built up my whole mold for it, and that went okay, but the fill analysis seems like it's taking forever. Like hours. It gets to the "Fill" stage, gets just a sliver of green on the progress bar, and then sits.
Last time I tried this was on my workstation at the office, using 2013. It didn't take nearly this long, and the part was much larger and far more complex, with a significantly slower computer.
Is something broken with this in 2014? I guess I can just let it run overnight, see what happens in the morning ...
Product Design Suite Ultimate 2013, 2014
Autodesk Inventor 2013
I was undertaking a cut and fill analysis but the values were very different. Evaluating spot levels the depth was given as 1.2m but the volume surface stated it was only .6m.
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I had to remove the surface and start from scratch re-building the definitions.
Civil3D 2013 / 2014 Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz With 32768MB RAM, AMD FirePro V4900, Dedicated Memory: 984 MB, Shared Memory: 814 MB
I'm using Autodesk Inventor 2012 SP1 64 Bit on a Windows 7 machine without vault.
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1.2mm SS 50x100 @3000
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' Create a transient circle objectDim oCircle As Inventor.CircleSet oCircle = oTransGeom.CreateCircle(oCenter, oNormal, 1)Create a circle graphics object within the node.Dim oCircleGraphics As CurveGraphicsSet oCircleGraphics = oCurvesNode.AddCurveGraphics(oCircle)Call oCircleGraphics. Color.SetColor(255,35,35) '
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