Hi,
I am a Revit MEP user primarily and work at a building design firm. After a long time of getting unusable files from a machine vendor, we have requested from corporate a seat of Pro/E and the main file from the vendor so that we don't have to wait around for them to try and export failed attempts at something we can use.
It has been some time since I used Pro/E and am more familiar with solidworks.
They tried to give us a DWG, but it was 500mb in size and pretty much unusable by most of our users who only use AutoCAD.
I essentially need the exo-skeleton of the machine. I suggested that the company try exporting to an STL file, which from my understanding, is exactly what we need - no minute details, or assembly information included. The vendor had said that the STL file "did not work" and gave no more details.
When I receive the Pro/E license and the model from the vendor the first thing I will try to do is export to STL on my own, and see what I can come up with.
What I think is clogging up the DWG file was the amount of detail - subassemblies in the model, bolts, threads on bolts, etc - are all useless and unnecessary amounts of details to the architects and others. Is there a way to remove that information from an export? Would I have issues selecting each part of a model and deleting them (I'm sure I'd get some assembly errors).
I am open to any feedback and help.
Thank you.
I am a Revit MEP user primarily and work at a building design firm. After a long time of getting unusable files from a machine vendor, we have requested from corporate a seat of Pro/E and the main file from the vendor so that we don't have to wait around for them to try and export failed attempts at something we can use.
It has been some time since I used Pro/E and am more familiar with solidworks.
They tried to give us a DWG, but it was 500mb in size and pretty much unusable by most of our users who only use AutoCAD.
I essentially need the exo-skeleton of the machine. I suggested that the company try exporting to an STL file, which from my understanding, is exactly what we need - no minute details, or assembly information included. The vendor had said that the STL file "did not work" and gave no more details.
When I receive the Pro/E license and the model from the vendor the first thing I will try to do is export to STL on my own, and see what I can come up with.
What I think is clogging up the DWG file was the amount of detail - subassemblies in the model, bolts, threads on bolts, etc - are all useless and unnecessary amounts of details to the architects and others. Is there a way to remove that information from an export? Would I have issues selecting each part of a model and deleting them (I'm sure I'd get some assembly errors).
I am open to any feedback and help.
Thank you.