Create Dummy Part

[Anonymous]

IV9 SP4 - I have a somewhat complex assembly that i need to send to a customer also using inventor. But i don't want him to be able to see or use the "guts" of the assembly. I tried to create a .stp and .iges but inventor gave me an error "unsupported geometry - translator failed".
So i guess what ia am asking is what is the quickest method to create a "dummy" shell of my assembly. Derived component maybe? not quite sure

[Anonymous]

I would derive the assembly into a part file.

MikeB wrote:
> IV9 SP4 - I have a somewhat complex assembly that i need to send to a customer also using inventor. But i don't want him to be able to see or use the "guts" of the assembly. I tried to create a .stp and .iges but inventor gave me an error "unsupported geometry - translator failed".
> So i guess what ia am asking is what is the quickest method to create a "dummy" shell of my assembly. Derived component maybe? not quite sure

[Anonymous]

A derived component would work. Break the link to the parent assembly after creating it.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried saving it as a SAT file? This will eliminate an extra step of deriving. Thanks.

shekar

[Anonymous]

Doing a SAT out will not necessarily eliminate the interior details of a
model that could jeopardize the proprietary nature of the part.

We get models from vendors that are an (outer profile only) model and some
are very well done; I assume from the complexity of their models that they
must have used an automated process to remove interior details.

I have conversely received models from vendors with this treatment that were
absolutely unusable without hours of work (i.e. non water tight) so
apparently there are good and bad ways of doing this kind of operation.

If anyone knows of a program that would help eliminate the proprietary inner
details of models and just provide a spatial representation to a vendor
while leaving outer detail only it would be great to know about.


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Have you tried saving it as a SAT file? This will eliminate an extra step
of deriving. Thanks.

shekar

[Anonymous]

Hi Albert,

I was just wondering why go between representations with STEP or IGES when SAT (same representation) could do it.

What you bring up is a valid request. Simplified representations which will automatically remove unnecessary (could be defined by the user, etc) details. All I can say is that we are aware of this need. I'm sure you are already aware of the bounding box simplification in R11 in derived component but we do realize that is too much of a simplification which fails to denote what the real part is. Thanks for your input.

shekar

[Anonymous]

Hi Shekar, I personally would not expect this functionality from Inventor or
any other modeling program but from a third party application.
Having a "simplified" native IV file would not be that important to me, it's
having a program to simplify a model that I have already STEPed or SATed out
from IV.

Any of you mastermind guru code writers out there want to take a stab at
it?......