Assembly File Size

[ice_man]

Hey Guys:

I wanna send my file to the vendor, and I dont want them to have access to my files. Just enough to look at the assembly in the form of surfaces. The easiest and appropriate way I could think of was saving the file as a shrinkwrap part. But doing so kicks me out of Pro/E. Though I get some Geometry Overlapping error before that. I ran the global interfernce check on my assembly and there are bunch of parts that are interefering with each other. I am not sure if this is what causing pro/E to shut down or it is something else. The file size is pretty big but I have a 2GB ram on my machine as well. The igs size of the assembly is 650MB. Any suggestions would really be appreciated.

TIA.

Cheers

 

[miked]

save it as a step file while in assy mode. You didnt mention what software they use but most people can read a .stp file. *I do have a lot of trouble with solidworks users not being able to open a step file though. They seem to prefer iges (the people I have been dealing with anyway).

 

[dr_gallup]

How are you making the shrinkwrap? Having Pro/E automatically merge all parts into one solid part always sounds good on paper but is the least likely to succeed. If you manually select major surfaces it is the most likely to succeed but most likely won't be watertight (gaps & missing surfaces). This works well if they just need to look at it.

 

[EddyVE]

You could use the free eDrawings tool to convert your Pro/E models to eDrawings format.
The eDrawings model can be rotated, zoomed, etc.
eDrawings has a possibility to generate a file that includes both the eDrawings program as your model. So your contact persons do not have to install anything !
Worth a try:
[url]http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/edrawings/eDrawings .html[/url]


Kind regards