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Re: Protection Faults

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Originally Posted by Eric Reed
We get lots of protection faults with Inventor, especially when we get a complex assembly with lots 'o' constraints. We've had the same problem on lots of computers with very different configurations. Save Often is the manta. Inventor is cool, but I can't believe that industry will put up with that.

Eric.
To be fair, "industry" tends to use different hardware then we do. I believe that most of the crashes experienced with CAD programs tend to be hardware/driver issues and not the fault of the software producer.

The size of an assembly in RAM should not be a problem until you get into very very large assemblys. I've had assemblys with 1600 unique parts open and, although it didnt run smoothy, I did not experience any crashes. Of course this was with solidworks, I'm not sure how memory efficient Inventor is.

We are kindof forced to use Inventor, but Solidworks tends to crash half as often as Inventor for me (and is used a lot more in industry).
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