Hello Victor.
I am also using Solidworks as an employee at Work now for 10 years.
At Home i am playing around with viacad as part of my private interests.
During Installation you were asked if you would like the example files to be
installed as well.
So take a look at them ...
Open them and say "Verify" > "Object Counts ...".
There you will find several assemblies.
As far as i got with my understanding:
- in Viacad we have several parts consisting of
> 1 solid
> or several meshes
> or several curves
> or one or more surfaces
- the parts can be grouped and positioned to each other to your liking
- as long as you don't change something on the parts each part
is treated individually.
- in Solidworks we have the files
> for the parts containing the solid/surface-Data
> the file for the assembly, containing the information
> which file how often
> grouped ? single ?
> in which relative position in the assembly (location of origin and
orientation of part
- in ViaCAD we have no such thing (AFAIK)
- all is stored in one single file
- Your file is too big ? You ran out of memory ?
> Well, maybe not all of your parts needed to be shown in super fine
resolution
> Do all your files need to be solids ?
Screws, Nuts, Bolts and parts where only the outer surface is of interest
surely not ...
Maybe converting them to surfaces will make things better ...
> look at the number of facets ...
The more factes, the bigger the file will get.
Do you need to show every little blend on every part ?
> always remember the purpose of your data
- rapid prototyping would need in best case solids
- rendering ? well, mybe grouped surfaces/meshes would also
do the job ...
- technical documentation ? Well, that depends, use your brain,
that's why you have it ...
Hope nobodys laughing at me right now ...
Roland
