Part III: Working with Assemblies
FIGURE 14.7The Simplify Assembly tool
The Simplify Assembly tool can help you find features in the parts of the assemblies that are under
a certain size or that take up less than a certain percentage of the volume of the part. You can then
suppress these features in special derived configurations.Controlling display performance
Overall, SolidWorks performance is split into two categories: CPU (central processing unit) pro-
cessing and GPU (graphics processing unit) processing. Which of these functions your computer
performs better can vary widely, depending on your hardware, drivers, and system maintenance,
among other factors.When trying to speed up the performance of an assembly, the biggest impact is obviously made if
you can reduce the load on both the CPU and the GPU. You can do this by suppressing a part.
When a part is suppressed, it is neither calculated nor displayed; this means the load on each pro-
cessor for that part is zero.