...can be a royal PITA!! If things continue this way, I'm going to end up bald. Frankly, I don't want to be bald. It's bad enough that I have some gray coming in. That's right, I'm not aging gracefully. I'm fighting tooth and nail to stay young. However, the ACIS file I've been dealing with is making an already difficult battle even more difficult.
I know, I know, SolidWorks handles ACIS all the time, along with a slew of other file types. I know. Not this one, though. This one is wreaking havoc on my mental well-being. The file originated out of revit and is 143MB sat file. When I first imported it, I spaced out and did it across the network. Hush, I know I screwed up. Thankfully, it only took 14.5 hours to convert...no, that's not an exaggeration. Unfortunately, everything came in suppressed. I tried unsuppressing everything all at once, but that turned out to be another mistake. SolidWorks stopped responding (read: flatlined), and I had to pull the plug (FYI - Computer specs: Dell T3400, Core2Duo E6850 @ 3GHz, 8 Gigs RAM on a 1GB network). Meanwhile, my partner-in-crime here, Mike, did the smart thing and moved the ACIS file to his hard drive and opened it from there. It only took 5 hours to get it to open up in SolidWorks. (I should mention here that, once opened, there are 3500+ parts in the assembly.) He was then able to get everything to unsuppress in 30 minutes. Yee-ha! We saved the assembly, moved it, and all its associated parts, onto a memory stick and transferred it to my computer. I opened up the file on the stick and...where's the assembly?? We went back to his computer but it wasn't there. It wasn't on the stick. It was gone. How the hell does that happen?
I've been on the phone with the local VAR (Quest Integration). Those guys have been great in dealing with me. I say me, and not the issue, because I can be a handful when I get aggravated. I've talked to some other users and a couple of people at SolidWorks, but have yet to find a solution.
As I sit here writing, the assembly is up on my other monitor and everything appears to be unsuppressed. Unfortunately, SolidWorks also appears to be locked up. Again. I don't want to bring up my task manager as I know what I'm bound to see (SolidWorks Office Premium 2008 x64 Edition...Not Responding).
What's my point here? Why am I rambling on nonsensically? Because I'm hoping that one of you out there have been through this before and can either give me a fix, or commiserate with me. Thank God it's Thursday (I work 4/10's). Tomorrow I'm going salmon fishing. Saturday, I'm relaxing. I'll come back here on Monday, refreshed, and go at it again. So long as I don't go bald, it'll all be good.
Hey Jeff, I can give it a go if ya like. May be the version it was saved in. Would be nice if you could get another save out of revit (maybe split up?)
you could try bringing it into another CAD program too. maybe SpaceClaim? it can bring in anything right? :)
Give me a call if ya like.
Posted by: Josh | July 28, 2008 at 07:45 AM