The Acad mesh/solid density can sometimes be simplified within Acad, there are other methods in Max. Is the Shrinkwrap tool any use to you?
580Mb of what? Have they modelled every thread on every screw or something? You can lighten the load by Mapping small details instead of Modelling everything. Do you have a Level Of Detail threshold?
If it was a building I'd Link it into Max instead of Exporting it. I use Acad MEP & Revit rather than pure Acad 3D objects.
Send it to me?
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 20:16, Reply)
Send it to you? I'd be breaking quite a few rules if I did!
I've simplified to the max, "overkill", "3dclean" etc.
But this is the actual "build" file for the yard in China done by a French firm...
So every piece of steel plate/beam is present.
But the "top" file to group these parts is not, you'd need the dedicated Chinese software for that...
Doing unions of said parts in not complicated, It's just that there are 33 000 visible parts.
But what is really killing me are the lifeboats, pulleys, jigs that are everywhere!
That said, nothing hard, it's just the size and quantity that would need hiring a floor of chimps to simplify.
But I'll try the linking suggestion.
Still have to texture the darn bugger too.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 21:20, Reply)
Acad linking to Max does help you out with the textures a bit
Buggered if I can remember how.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 21:42, Reply)
Acad Architecture does anyway. It Maps the 255-colour palette to a library of 'real-world' textures.
You line about "maybe for animation, maybe for Inventor" made me twitch. It suggests you are using the 'carpet bombing' approach to information representation. They're two different problems for two different audiences.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 22:15, Reply)
Let me explain
Inventor needs to either make it's elements or have clean 3Dobjects to import with clear pivot/movement lines.
For animation(we are talking industrial stuff, not Disney), I also need clean 3d objects with clear pivot/movement lines.
This the only place where these two different ops meet.
In real life, I always have two models of the same thing.
The accurate to default engineering version.
The simplified (internals removed) version for rendering/Inventor.
Once exported out of Cad, the two are separate entities.
Just to give you an idea, we did a lift in the North sea last week where the load on one of the two cranes was 99% and only 1.8m clearance...
Sweaty palm times:
Autocad is for engineering calculation.
Inventor is to check clearances, slings, wires.
Max is for pretty pictures in the brochure.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 22:38, Reply)
I was following what you two said up until Autocad, and was lost after that.
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