Clean Common Parts with export to parasolid then import back again - Worth it?

owen_sparks

Hi folks.

Toying with the idea of exporting my "set in stone" revisions of library parts to parasolid then back into OS again to create clean and faster loading files.  Especially where I've not modeled them sensibly, say with a chain of derives or direct edit.

Cons:- Loss of history, but if edits are required the source partstudio still exists.

Any thoughts on whether it's worth it?

Cheers, Owen S.

brucebartlett

I think its the way to go. Direct editing is heaps quicker in a lot of cases than tracing back through a tree with heaps of edits and dependencies, studios can get very slow once up to the 100 or so features. I'd like to see a compassion of load speeds of a complex part into an assembly for the clean imported part as opposed to the messy studio part but the same finish geometry. 

The biggest con I can see is if you have drawings and assemblies all links will be lost. 

brucebartlett

I think its the way to go. Direct editing is heaps quicker in a lot of cases than tracing back through a tree with heaps of edits and dependencies, studios can get very slow once up to the 100 or so features. I'd like to see a compassion of load speeds of a complex part into an assembly for the clean imported part as opposed to the messy studio part but the same finish geometry. 

The biggest con I can see is if you have drawings and assemblies all links will be lost. 

owen_sparks

Thanks @brucebartlett seems to jive with the theory.

Owen S.

robert_morris

What about just moving the finished parts into a separate document and then using a link from your assembly to that document?

I thought I read in some other post that when you link to a versioned part in another document that Onshape caches the geometry of the part, which should be similar in speed to an imported dumb solid. Plus, if you just use a link, you retain the ability to edit the part features more easily.

konstantin_shiriazdanov

i think OS only consumes additional resourses to rebuild geometry when the features are edited, in all other cases there should be no much difference.

owen_sparks

Thanks chaps.

Owen S.