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Large assembly modelling demonstration
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Schott Systeme GmbH product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Feb 15, 2007
Schott Systeme have released a new online video highlighting the innovations found within their CAD/CAM software 'Pictures by PC'.
Catering for designers who are required to model extremely large assemblies such as factory production lines, German based software developer Schott Systeme have released a new online video highlighting the innovations found within their CAD/CAM software 'Pictures by PC'.
Taking an entirely different approach to that of parametric software products, where the complete construction history of a design can dramatically slow performance, Schott Systeme firstly showcase their 'Local Modelling' tools.
In short, these enable parts and assemblies to be quickly constructed, positioned and changed without any parametric history or constraints required.
Obvious advantages of such an approach are a dramatic reduction in file sizes, in addition to the ability to locally change imported models from other systems without requiring any parametric history.
The next obvious method to reduce assembly file sizes is to somehow reference duplicated parts, and currently most parametric systems employ various methods to do this.
However generally there is still a large overhead in file size regardless, and this is where Schott Systeme's new approach has made them considerable gains.
Shown within the video below, a production line machine is referenced an additional 8 times within the production line assembly, with an increase of only 2KB in the overall file size.
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