I would have thought this information would be easy to find, but i has been quite the ordeal. I relates to the handling of large assy in SW. We have a large assembly line with roughly 100 000 parts about 60 000 non-fasteners and roughly 30 000 unique components. W are seriously considering SW, but have seen no proof that SW ca handle assemblies of this size. I understand proper assy practice need to be used and very powerful computers are required, but I hav never heard of anything close to even 30 000 components
SW has shown close to 10 000 part assemblies in demos and claim the
can do more, but there is a lot of talk about headaches people ar having with large assys in SW on forums such as these. So what I? asking is this
1) Can you refer me to any companies that are designing very largassys with SW
2) Is the SW engine inherently limited in handling large assys b design (i.e. will the program grind to a halt at a certain point) 3) Isn?t managing the simplified versions of parts and sub-assy difficult and doesn?t it introduce additional potential for errorsWe are considering Catia as well, but are worried it is overkill fo
the machine design we?re doing. I?m interested in hearing you experiences
Thanks
Mark