Performance Issues with Inventor R10

[Panzer1970]

We reccently installed and are using Inventor R10 and started noticing some performance issues with Inventor and our Network.

The network in general seems to hit a bottleneck evary so often and slows everything down (email, Inventor, etc...)

Inventor for lack of a better explaination forgets how to be Inventor and will take 10 -15 sec to excute a command or allow one to rotate a part.
With this installation we created a space on our network for our Content Center files and our Styles Library, but this shouldn't slow everything down.

Average Eng Workstation
3.0 GHz Pentium
1.5 GB Ram
980XGL nVidia AGP 128 MB
Windows XP Pro

We are also researching other options as to why this problem is occuring but would like to know if anyone else has run into the same sitiuation and what the fixes were. Thanks

 

[DesignerMike]

How are your project set up?

I guess your Content Center and Styles library is on the network. I'm guessing you have the IV part and assembly files saved to a network drive?

You could save a copy to the local drive and see how the performance changes (and create a local project). This would tell you if IV is requesting the file information or Content Center information.

Long term, it would probably make sense to look at the Vault. When you open a file from the Vault, it automatically puts a "working" copy on your local drive where you edit and modify. When you are happy with the changes, you check it back into the Vault (on the network) and everyone has access to the new updated versions. Of course it only allows one designer to have the files "checked out" for editing at a time, BUT many designers can be using that same file in other designs (they just don't have the ability to edit the file). It is somewhat complicated to set up, so don't think you can just install it and be working up to speed in a day or two.