Handling very large assemblys

[Robert Andersson]

If you are working in VERY large assys you may found this metod useful in some cases.

 

Lets say you and you team are working on a industrial production line togheter with suppliers and/ or consultants.

If a supplier of one assemblystation (machine) have that machine as a 3D modell,

you can import that hole assembly in to IronCAD (prefered linked).

Then the trick is to select all of the important faces of the machine assembly, and right click any

of the selected faces and select "Create surface shape".

You can shift click a lot of surfaces in one step.

The easiest way is to change the selection filter from "Any" to "Faces" before clicking. Then you dont have to drill trough the

assembly levels.

 

Then you can surpress (or delete) the orginal machine assembly.

The surfaces are handled as new parts.

 

This can speed up things with like factor 20 or more.

If you have the inserted machine assy surpressed, you can allways go back and unsurpress parts of it,

if you need more geometry at a later time.

If you have the machine assy inserted as a link to the main assy, it will not add file saving time to the toplevel assy.

 

Robert Andersson