How to do memory management in large assemblies in Catia V5?
 

There memory management in Assembly design workbench is a bigger challenge in OEMs where the hardware configuration is in most cases the limitation in handling large assemblies.

The following tips would help us in handling large assemblies with optimized utilization of the available memory.
  • Level 1 –
    Go to tools - > Options -> General -> Load Reference documents
    Disable this option.

    Using this option the document alone gets loaded where as the data does not.
    The tree structure appears the required parts/products could be loaded.
  
 
  • Level 2 –
    Go to tools - > Options - > Product Structure – Product visualization
    Do not activate default shapes on open.
    Disable this option

    The document and data gets loaded where as the default shapes are inactive.

    The required products can suitably be activated by picking in the specification tree and pressing the F9 button on the keyboard.
 
 

 

  • Level 3
    Go to tools - > Options -> Product structure -> Product Structure -> Cache management.

    Switch on the cache management..

    Set a path for the cgr files to be stored for the local cache on the local drive say “ “C:/cgr”

    Change the size of the data from the default value of 500 to a value say 5000 MB

    Go to tools -> options -> product structure -> product structure – cgr management

    Activate “Optimize cgr for large assembly visualization.”

    This options helps the user to load large assemblies in visualization mode which is devoid of the mass properties and is light in weight.