Hello SOLIDWORKS Power-Users and welcome to the simplest WPUC so far.
For 10,000 points and eternal glory create an assembly that contains the biggest number of part components.
The prize will be doubled if the winning entry has over 1 billion component parts and doubled again for over 1 trillion component parts.
Additional 5000 point prizes for the first who submits assemblies with:
- over 10,000,000 part components
and
- over 100,000,000 part components.
Example of a "simple" assembly, containing 1,000,000 part components:
You can have as many subassembly components you want. What matters is that the total number of part components loaded by SOLIDWORKS is the largest of all the entries in the competition.
Update: The first thing we learned from this challenge is that there is a barrier at 1 Million part components, after which SW slows down exponentially. Because of that, we will run this competition in phases.
Phase 1:
To enter the contest, please reply in this thread and attach the Pack&Go zip file containing the assembly and all its components before midnight on Sunday, the 28th of January, 2018. Also, post a screenshot of your Performance Evaluation (AssemblyXpert) report.
Phase 2: Same as above, with a deadline of midnight, February 28th.
If the file is too large, please upload it HERE.
Any bets about how many components the winning assembly will have?
BTW, we are ordering a powerful machine to be able to judge this competition. We hope to be able to open your 1 trillion part assembly!
My apologies for the delay in announcing the winners. The main reason for the delay is that is next to impossible to confirm that the entries are correct. The opening time and especially the operational speed are dismal on any assembly containing more than 10M parts.
That being said, allow me to congratulate the winner of Phase 1, Thomas Voetmann.
Thomas won 15,000 points for his 10M+ part assembly. Along with the points, he will be awarded another SOLIDWORKS Power-User Certificate.
Update: Congratulations to Thomas Voetmann for winning the second Phase also. Another 10,000 points for him.
This challenge was very important for my research in the large assembly performance. I need now to understand the effect on bodies on large assembly performancem thus the topic for the 15th SWPUC.