What's Worse
What's Worse
(OP)
What's Worse, a 16,500 parts in a single assembly and all the parts are a single surface body, or a part with 16,500 surfaces?
IMO, they both are.
I have an engine STEP file that I can import either way, but no matter what its a nasty file.
IMO, they both are.
I have an engine STEP file that I can import either way, but no matter what its a nasty file.
Scott Baugh, CSWP 
CAD Systems Manager
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Chris, CSWP
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At least in the part environment, you can manipulate those surfaces, stitch edges, and create water tight solids. Besides, if it is a purchased part, you may only want the interfaces and only show a single line on a BOM.
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I deal with this when I get exports of a PCB from Altium to put in the assembly model. It can take a while to save the imported assembly as a part but after that initial pain it makes management of the design and files much easier.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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... or that my engine mfgr. would stop using them.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Try loading a 5000 part file in Canada and finding out you have stuff linked to a file server in Mississippi.
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JHG
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At least it wasn't on someone's C drive!
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Oh, parts of it were...
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JHG
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Might be worth the time to stitch together the most important bits and cull the rest.
One place I worked used a service to fix difficult imports (usually CATIA!). Well worth the time. Wasn't hard to do the match to see it was worth it in terms of man-hours saves.
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However to answer your question Tick, at 16,500+ surfaces I don't have the time to sit down with it and try to figure it all out. If that was all I did all day, I think I would have a job for the next 6 months trying to figure that one engine out.
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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Evapar
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