bhansen553861 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Hello everybody, I have a customer who wants a model of one of my machines, but obviously I am not interested in handing out too much information and too many details. He needs the model to be able to fit my machine into a larger build. Is there a way in which I can provide him with a model with general dimenstions without supplying him with my whole model. A sort of "shelled" model maybe? If it is relevant, he prefers stp-format. Best regards Bjørn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 If you have IronCAD Mechanical, you can use the Suppress Small command to suppress smaller items (basically removing some of the more detailed items). Then you can export with these items suppressed. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhansen553861 Posted June 8, 2016 Author Share Posted June 8, 2016 Thank you for the answer, but it was not quite what I was looking for. Is this the only option? What do people do in this situation? Bjørn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Andersson Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 This can be tricky. You want to let the customer work with your assy but the customer should not have all info so they can take over the project and manufacture them self... Tricks that may help could be: -Select multiple surfaces of your assembly solids (light in green) and RMB and select CREATE SURFACE MODEL The surfaces should be the important ones especially the connecting and bordering ones and those that are needed for the looks. Use SHIFT click or BOX select or a combo of those. Export the resulting single surface part as a STP and send to the customer. -Do a boolean of all the parts in the assy. They then become one single part. This makes it a little harder to use. Export the resulting part as a STP and send to the customer. -Scale the assy with a random scale factor (hehe) -Export a facet model like STL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhansen553861 Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Hi Robert Thank you for your input. That sounds like an acceptable solution for me. I will try to see if this is acceptable for my customer's use too. Bjørn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPAJERCHIN Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Other solution: 1. Assembly - Create Part 2. Confirm the message to set new part as active 3. Feature - Copy Body 4. Selct the bodies, or parts, ...etc Finally you get one part with Brep items (previously parts of assembly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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