Lighten a step

Hello

I am working on a project with other companies, this one sends me steps that are heavy.

My project is already very heavy, I'm looking for a solution to lighten the steps I receive as much as possible

Thank you in advance for your help

No miracle, it remains the way to the mano by removing all the bodies or surfaces deemed useless. (Screws, small parts not useful for your design...)
Or else redraw a merged volume on top of it and export in step again.
Possibility to use the feature tool, even if not always very easy to use:

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Hello @sbadenis

I'm not sure if defeature works on STEP.

What do you think of the "assembly envelope" solution? The envelopes are much lighter and still offer a number of possibilities to be integrated into another ASM.

Kind regards

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I use it very little, is it really lighter?
For me, envelope was just used to exclude from the nomenclature, not necessarily to lighten.
But you may be right to test! Or to be confirmed!

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I think @Zozo_mp'm talking about Speedpak which creates an envelope volume (hence the confusion about the word)

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