Tom Hanson Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hi I'm having problems with products designed and modelled in Solidworks, then exported as parasolids for importing into Vectorworks. Essentially, they are taking ages to render or crash when rendering. Is there a way to optimise the parasolids on either export or import? Or after import before rendering? Or is there a better workflow/export option for Solidworks to Vectorworks? (I'm just the Vectorworks user, and the products I'm importing have been modelled by someone else so I can't explore the Solidworks options). Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Horst M. Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) Hallo Tom, Check what kind of objects are imported into VW to form the geometry of the Elements. (3d Polygons or Nurbs Surfaces or extrudes ...) I had some imports from Symbols supplied by a Manufacturer, that were originally created with Solidworks. They imported into VW as Symbols with hundreds of NURBS Surfaces inside. These Symbols slowed VW substantially down. Specially during Renders I edited the Symbols, selected all Nurbs Surfaces and executed the "Stitch Trim Surface" Command. with Luck! Solidworks seems to export perfect fitting geometry! All those Nurbs Surfaces were converted to a few Solids. Renderings were very fast after that and the slow down was completely gone. If you like Post an Element for further Exploration Regards Horst M. Edited October 13, 2011 by Horst M. Quote Link to comment
Tom Hanson Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 Only a couple of years late from me but thank you very much! Quote Link to comment
GWS Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Solidworks does indeed export perfectly stitched solids and i have had great success with the above method.....the same cannot be said for VW. Why is VW so 'idiosyncratic!' compared to other CAD software. Even the price comparable end of the market is better at this. Quote Link to comment
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