Slowness of VGLUE

[laserablaatio]

Hi all,
I have noticed that the bottleneck in a model I use is the
VGLUE command. Any hints for making it any faster?

I have to glue a 2D array of "tiles" together. When the amount of brick volumes gets near 1000 it takes many minutes to glue them together. The solution phase of the static structural problem takes only couple of seconds, for comparison.

I use Ansys 9.2 on a 3 GHz P4.

Thanks for your hints!

 

[meshparts]

If the volumes are glued together at once, then ansys must check the possibility to glue one volume with each other volume. Given N Volumes, you get n*(n-1) checks! So the smart way ist to select only the right volumes at once and then glue them together. Then select the next set of volumes and glue...

Regards,
Alex