Our company wants to show one assembly to a costumer using a tablet (for some reason) and I was wondering if one of those marvelous cloud products would work for it. (3DExperience, xDesign, 3D Creator, whatever)
Design was made in Desktop SW 2021, has 66 parts (almost 300 bolts/washers suppressed), and is able to do some movements in two axis or spinning.
Visualizing the assembly is fine, the problem would be being able to move it within the Mates established in SW.
I did test eDrawings, but it does not keep the Mates, right?
It doesn’t. You could create a quick motion study that shows the movement and publish an eDrawing. See attached, it’s a EDrawing 2022 file so you’ll need to install edrw 2022.
I think you can cheat it by making an ‘exploded’ view disguised as the motion study. Is the exploded view always pre-determined in edrawings?
Edit: I just tried it and although exploded views are not working very well you can still make a simple motion study with this trick.
Hmm, eDrawings is not bad, files open fast and can play animations with section planes active. Unfortunately the animation stops when the camera rotates, or is there a way to keep it playing?
If you are looking for a simple tool for collaboration that allows you to load extremely large assemblies of any CAD tools in a browser look up Vertex Visualization tools. A killer tool and you are not exposing any IP to anyone, and your CAD data never leaves your premise.
In the end we used the animations that I made. The e-drawings app still have some limitations, it doesn’t import the animations, and the windows software wont allow to rotate the camera while it’s playing.
tbh using an ipad/tablet is just a way to look for trouble while working, there are some 2-in-1 laptops available to be used as showoffs
Vertex should allow you to pan and zoom around all you want. I believe you can create a fly thru path as well.. not totally sure on that.
This tool takes massive assemblies…like a parking lot full of dump trunks (fully detailed) or a submarine. I’ve even seen a aircraft carrier with jets used in this tool. It uses some cool technology to “fracture” brep models into slices and then you view only slices..so model size is really irreverent. The closer you get the more detail you get too.