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141,732kb .stp file - tips and tricks to opening


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Anyone have experience with C-hooks or Macros. I have a fairly large .stp file that takes hours to open. once open it is difficult to manage. takes 30+ seconds just for a save. I'm sorting 2,000 levels trying to identify and name each one just to get to the pieces I need. It would be ideal if I could save each level as its own file as I open the step file. Sorting would be easily done with file preview. I could, then, merge the files/levels I want into a usable file. I'm thinking a Mastercam Macro or c-hook could accomplish this but have never used them. Solid works is not an option as our servers are down. this is a work around.

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I work with large files a lot and Boolean add of solids that can be reduced down to one has helped a lot. Makes it real nice when the file has to go to CAV. I click on the one fixture solid with the 250 entities and done. I also get some solid with assemblies and reduce them down to one solid whenever possible. I will keep the native parent solid in the file, but I will have a separate level with the items that can be joined made into one solid for working purposes. Another trick is to open a file with shading off and chord height turned up to at least .010. I also will use the simply solids that helps to reduce some solids that CREO, CATIA and NX like to make larger than needed with facets faces and small features that aren't needed for defining the solid.

Best tool by far is Spaceclaim. I will bring files into it and work on them in there 1st. Then I bring them into Mastercam. This really helps a lot. I have started opening a step file in Mastercam. Then gone to Spaceclaim and opened the same file. I have then saved it out as a Parasolid and started a new session of Mastercam and opened the Parasolid of that same part faster than Mastercam can load the original step file.

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