inventor in showcase

[leandrav]

Hi,

I have a very large inventor assembly that i am trying to create a walkthrough of in Showcase.

As you can imagine this is putting a lot of strain on my PC.

Is there away to some how make the assembly file small so that it is easier to get through the walkthrough.

It's takes 10 min alone to open the file in showcase....

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi, Try Shrinkwrap the assembly to surface or body and then put it into showcase.

hope it helps a little bit.

[JoyceZhou]

Could you let us know which version of Inventor are you using?

Have you tried to simplify the large assembly by LOD, DV, Shrinkwrap in Inventor before open it in Showcase?

Thanks,

[leandrav]

hi,

I have never heard of that before so i will give it a try.

How do i go about doing this?

Thanks!!

[admaiora]

Hi Lean,

Showcase can manage very big assemblies.

The first time can take a lot of time , the software is traslating all the geometry.

Once you have your assembly translated  in showcase and saved as Showcase file, it will take a very short ammount of time (proportionally) to open again next time.

[XuesongBai]

Just create a walkthrough in Showcase. Maybe you need to create a lightweight model of Inventor assembly before importing into Showcase. Shrinkwrap should be a way.

Have you tried to do that in Navisworks?

Thanks,

-Xuesong

[leandrav]

hi...

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2016.

I haven't tried any of that. I am relatively new to this so i don't know about any of these tools.

Thanks.

[Xun.Zhang]

Try as below image and then you will get a part, import such part into showcase.

[JoyceZhou]

See the image below:

Design View: you could hide the components which you don't want it show in Showcase

LOD: Suppress or create Shrinkwrap part to create lightweight of the assembly, please have a try.

[leandrav]

Hi,

I have tried to shrinkwrap this morning & it makes a part that is SO much bigger (file size) than what the assembly was.

[Xun.Zhang]

Yes, the part size may bigger than single assembly file, but assembly is only contains references and constrains. so please select all children files as well as top assembly, the totally size should be bigger that this part. right? if so, the performance will be better,

[admaiora]

Hi Lean,

the iam file is a simple container.

The shrink file you have created is smaller that the sum of all the file contained in the assembly.

Anyway, before using the shrinkwrap try to open the assembly in Showcase and let it works alone during the lauch time.

As i said can take sometime the first time.

After this test (and fail in it) you can proceed with simplify you assembly (shrinkwrap...remove hidden parts...bolts..etc)

[JoyceZhou]

Hi,

The assembly is just a container of all the components in it, if you compare the size between shrinkwrapped part and the totally components & assembly, the shrinkwrapped part should be smaller.

Could you please hide unnecessary components, or suppress unnecessary components before creating Shrinkwrapped part?

Thanks,