The 14th SOLIDWORKS Power-User Challenge - How many components can you stuff in an assembly?

I can only Get to 1 Million but i think there is more like 7500000

Edit:Just noticed the total numer of components is 1010100 not 7500000

mabye 7 more times

Churned away for bout 10mins on last assem

I'll say 2 mil plus

Mine is still churning at 1.2 mil, we'll see if it'll blow

Alin, this challenge will have untold cost in time to companies and individuals world wide just trying to open the submissions, let along attempting to make a submission.

Rick Becker wrote:

 

Alin, this challenge will have untold cost in time to companies and individuals world wide just trying to open the submissions, let along attempting to make a submission.

I was just going to reply with a similar statement. My morning is pretty much shot now because I want to see what I can put together.

Alin Vargatu wrote:

...At this time I have 3 computers running different scenarios. Reaching 1 million is relatively easy. I am curious how far we can push SW and our machines...

I think this is really a test of Hardware much more so than SW. Even the SW version will play a roll.

Alin Vargatu wrote:

...It will save time in the long run, because we can see what are the limits of SOLIDWORKS.

Can't we just ask the programmers if there are any limits? Similar to the 1KM cube limit.

Alin Vargatu wrote:

...One thing I learned so far, is that having a smart system of subassemblies has a significant positive impact on performance.

This interests me greatly. Please tell more about this "smart system of subassemblies"

Rick Becker  wrote:

 

This interests me greatly. Please tell more about this "smart system of subassemblies"

Rick Becker - we know by now that Alin Vargatu always has an ulterior motive when it comes to these challenges, plus there is a reward for everyone, participants and people that just watch the race from the stands.... 

Obviously I am doing something wrong:

I took a single part....and deleted everything inside it that I could.

Added that part to an assembly, and patterned it 100X100 times.  Making 10,000 parts.

Then I took that pattern and tried to pattern it 100X100 times and left and came back 15 minutes later and it was still chugging away.

I would say that I am not sure that I have the time to participate in this challenge. 

I'm trying to take advantage of lightweight sub-assemblies. I'll make a part file, then pattern the 1st sub-assembly to create a cube of parts. Then make another sub-assembly and pattern the previous sub-assembly to make a cube. The thing that has helped is dissolving the linear pattern when done. With all of that said, I don't know how Alin is getting 1 million "relatively easily". My PC is still chugging away trying for 1.125M.

I'm not saying this is the method to go with but it's gotten me this far. The only issue at the higher part levels is that patterning is out of the question because just the preview is taking a huge amount of time to compute. I'm experimenting with creating a simple pattern with a small file and then File->Replace. It's been 10 minutes since I clicked the green check lol.

Dan Pihlaja wrote:

 

Obviously I am doing something wrong:

 

I took a single part....and deleted everything inside it that I could.

Added that part to an assembly, and patterned it 100X100 times. Making 10,000 parts.

Then I took that pattern and tried to pattern it 100X100 times and left and came back 15 minutes later and it was still chugging away.

 

I would say that I am not sure that I have the time to participate in this challenge.

start a new assembly...insert the asm you have into a new one and then pattern again.

stuck at 85,000 parts.