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  1. marieke

    How can I reduce the size of large parts?

    Yeah, ik read something about the maximum physical size of a part...I have tried it and for our factory layouts it's large enough (luckily our factories aren't that big). I have done some experiments and I was able to reduce the (memory) size of a part 4 times by using a combination of parasolid...
  2. marieke

    How can I reduce the size of large parts?

    Thank you for the tips. In fact, in our company we are starting to investigate to the possibility of building complete factory layouts in Solidsworks. At the moment the layouts are still done in 2D, but a 3D layout will be nicer to watch (seperate machines are allready designed completely in...
  3. marieke

    How can I reduce the size of large parts?

    Does anyone has some tips for reducing the size of large parts? In our company we use the parasolid conversion to reduce the size of our parts (we don't need the features anymore, just the surfaces and edges for mating). I am just wondering if there are other ways to facilitate the building of...

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