Shark does not use the available resources properly, I do not know if this is a Windows only problem but many times while waiting for the program to complete a task, I open up Task Manager and the processor usage is around 30% with the ram usage at around 25%.

With this in mind I did some research on efficient modelling practises and came up with a few things that may help people, if you have any nuggets of information please share them here.

Do not model assemblies, model individual parts and then import them into a final assembly.
Only use radiuses and chamfers if you really have to.
Use threaded parts at your peril, both external and internal threads add a lot of information.

Very well said, a customer of mine signed off on the very simple attached design of a test rig, he did not need to see all the details as they will be added to the individual parts drawings.

Keep it simple should be everybody’s motto.

I have a short story to tell, its CAD related, but not necessarily SharkFX related (SW2009 actually). Way back, I was working as a subcontractor on a large project that was being worked on across continents.
I would receive updates to assembly and part files overnight. The CAD jockeys "over there" would pride themselves on adding lots of details. One morning I woke up to a very long download that tied up my DSL connection for hours. So I went surfing for a few of those hours to get some much needed exercise. When I returned to working on the file it had ballooned. The assembly and parts files had crept up to a gigabyte file. The graphics card had major issues with this, granted it was not a high end workstation level card, but the computer really struggled to do anything. So, the guy who was slightly underpaying me at the time to do his work demanded that I upgrade my computer, I had said no. He offered to loan me a computer, I also said no. He then had the other CAD jockeys remove the threads, and other details that were causing all of the problems and advised them to put that all back in later. I quit woking for him soon after. There is one image that I always flash back on about that project and is the strange video distortion, almost like gained glass or fracturing in multiple colors while trying, and waiting for, those assembly files to rotate one step at a time. My current computers can more easily handle such file sizes, but I tend to work on smaller projects now. I hope this wasn't a waste of time. Ill admit that it was probably somewhat boring and vaguely factual, but its time for me to read to my little one. Good night!