Can't speak for Pat or the size issue (our RTU's are about 200 kb with all
the goodies), but you need to realize that RTU's are complicated. There is a
lot of geometry that is critical for good design. Not only height, width,
depth, but you could have supply, return, exhaust & OA openings,
multi-height roofcurbs with crossbars, adapters, hoods, fans, access panels
and clearances. Add in all the various connectors and you have a complicated
object. (Wish we could have multiple Layer Keys or Nested MvParts, to turn
on/off clearances, curbs, hoods, etc).
J
"Peter Terwilliger {Autodesk}"
wrote in
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> Hi Pat -
>
> I applaud your effort to make MvParts available to others, but I am
> wondering how your file got to be so big? Are you putting a lot of detail
> into your model blocks?
>
> One of things I see all the time are blocks that come over from Inventor.
> So you make the part using a lot of the cool modeling capabilities in
> Inventor, save it a SAT file and then find out its 2 Meg/block. That
makes
> for bloated drawings, poor performance, and the inability to transmit
> because everything is too big.
>
> What happens is that it takes AutoCAD a lot of resources to make the
curves,
> fillets etc. We are working with the AutoCAD team to address some of
these
> issues.
>
> "P.Temporale" wrote in message
> news:41065bac_2@newsprd01...
> > The file is too large (2.8mb) to post here, this site will only accept
> files
> > up to about 1.5mb. If you send me a e-mail address I will send you the
> > file. I also have a lot of other items drawn from fixture carriers to
> trane
> > rtu's. in all the files are about 1.5gb.
> >
> >
> > "AFielderJEG" wrote in message
> > news:21279077.1090864450239.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com...
> > > P. Temporale,
> > > I am just getting started with making MvParts. I work for a
> > Mechanical contractor, and if I could get your cast iron no-hub fitting
> > MvPart, that would help me out tremendously
> >
> >
>
>