Hi all
I've been designing products on SolidWorks for a short time and sometimes I'll have to send them to customers or subcontractors.
And of course like everyone else I want to protect my work so I would have liked to know if the STEP file extension is reliable please?
By this I mean will my customers be able with the help of a qualified person to reassemble/access my design or they will only have access to a goemetric part, a hull of my product?
Thank you for your answers.
Hello
With a STEP file, they will have access to your part and will be able to modify it. If you want them to only have access to a visualization piece, you will need to generate an edrawings file, and if they don't have a viewer, you can open your edrawings file with edrawings and save it in .exe. It's a file format that integrates the executable to be able to view it... Or even simpler, you can save your part or assembly in 3D PDF...
If you register a step assembly directly, all the geometry will be available to the customer.
What I do: I first save my assembly in parts by checking the "outer faces" box. I then open this part, which is a "shell", and save it as a step.
The customer gets an empty shell that he can constrain into an assembly like a conventional part.
Thank you for your answer.
With a STEP file, they will be able to modify it by adding new functions (drilling, revolution, etc.)? Or will they have access to my tree?
Are they assembly parts?
if you give to your subcontractors it's so that they make them
or to have only the clutter
see this link among others Exchange of exploitable 3D files, but "protected"
http://forum.solidagora.com/topic1796.html
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@Roub25
In this way, the part becomes surface. Modification is possible with a few manipulations by knowing the appropriate tools.
With a step file, the build tree is no longer available.
Hello
What do you really want?
Do you want to give them volume, do you want to give them a bulky piece for integration into an assembly ? Because yes with a step they will have your part but no there is no tree. But starting from a room, it is easy to reassemble a tree. On the other hand, if you just want to show them a part to integrate it into sw without being able to touch it, yes there are solutions. If it's just to look without integration, yes there are solutions, hence my initial question, what do you really want?
May the force be with you.
For my part, it's only a part, not an assembly.
But indeed they may need it to integrate it into an assembly.
I've also heard about eDrawings.
The article is very comprehensive. GT22
with a step file
We can recreate the building tree
See this tutorial
http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/l-importation-de-fichiers-neutre-solidworks
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They will be able to add functions, and with featurworks they will be able to recreate a building tree. I wonder if you do like PhilippeB if they can put thickness back and record the body and or use featurworks but I've never tested that....
Yes, in absolute terms, I just want to show them the part without any possible modifications and so that they can integrate it into an assembly if necessary.
- Yes, I just want to show them
- Yes, that they can integrate it into an assembly
OK
Maybe I didn't explain myself well. Should your part be given to your customer so that he can integrate it into an assembly just to check that it fits?
may the force be with you.
You also have Speedpack
See this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HudqtnSGUE4
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WAN @OBI
just so that they control that it mounts with what he has
So Speedpack is for you
they will only have what you want the rest is dead
See the link to the tutorial in my previous post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HudqtnSGUE4
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