What are your tips or best practices when modelling a large *component*? It is not an assembly. It will be made as a single cast part.
This component is currently ~500 MB and is getting painfully slow to rebuild and work on.
The freeze feature helps a little but it is still super slow!
How to improve linear pattern rebuild performance by ~10X
12 SolidWorks Features You Don't Need - And How to Turn Them Off - SolidSmack -
Also turn Image quality way down.
Thanks so much Dan Pihlaja and Vladimir Urazhdin!
Any one else want to chime in?
I'm considering splitting the model into 2 or 4 parts as a dumb solid to reduce file size and then modifying those individual pieces separately. Can you suggest any best practices or caveats in doing so?
Clinton,
If you are looking for specific advice, the best way to get it - upload your model (or part of it).
A critical tip I learnt from Edward Eaton:
Leave the features that would create the most number of graphic-triangles at the end of the tree.
Usually those would be: fillets, chamfers, patterns, hole wizards.
Use the 'Freeze Bar' for controlling rebuilds upwards...
Steve C
Reorganize model. Simplify and optimize modelling technique, try to minimize amount of features. Get rid from unnecessary configurations.