comes a time, (ie. a "magic" number of constraints) where the program doesn't seem to be able to handle minor changes anymore. One of the solutions for this is to stuff parts into sub assemblies. This appears to drastically reduce, (usually) the number of constraints that SW needs to calculate and this seems to resolve the problems.
little round off error and when these errors get too large the whole model seems to shatter like a piece of glass.
Has anyone else ran into this? Are there any rules of thumbs for this?
Also from my experience, it seems like SW is about 3 times more tolerant then Inventor because it doesn't take very many parts at all in Inventor before it turns to garbage. Where as SW seems to be able to handle a fairly good size assembly befor problems start to be created.
Thanks,
EdT