Just started an assembly, and when I drop the customer parts in, the assembly file suddenly goes huge (i.e 180 MB - 500 MB bigger than the assembly should be. The customer parts are small molded pieces ( a few MB each) and likely originated in Catia. I am working in SW2017-4.1 ---- I have not used 2017 much, so not sure if this is a SW2017 issue, or just funky parts. In the customer part assemblies, I did notice some part faces that should be parallel actually .0001 - 004 degree off, but otherwise no gaps or faulty faces and they are solid. I have re-created the customer parts a few times, and tried exporting them to IGES and importing them again, but does not help. I changed the customer parts assembly to a part, and that seemed to work for a few hours, but then did a "save" and noticed how slow it was, and behold assembly file grew by 160 MB.
Any body seen this before or can offer any suggestions ?
This morning found something interesting --- my customer part assembly (small dumb assembly) suddenly went from 2MB to 85 MB. I turned off tools/options/system options/performance/verification on rebuild, saved, and it was back down to 2MB.
Seems reasonable that rebuild time is effected by this setting, but surprised if it effects file size. Anybody know enough about this tool to confirm if it could effect file size of an assembly ?
Not positive this is repeatable. Assemblies occasionally going huge, and then later going back to normal size.