Mainly for Siemens staff or anyone in the know...
Is the Simplify Assembly function still a mainstream utility for managing large assemblies in NX10?
Given other CAD systems (Creo, Solidworks, Catia, etc.) have lightweight and complexity reduction functions I still see they all utilize "enveloped" style components for use at the next assembly just as NX does with Simplify Assembly. So appears other CAD tools still find it a necessary function to have is that the future case for NX?
The way I see the Simplify Assembly function would be used is as follows:
1) Build complex component model with many parts
2) Create a linked Simplify Assembly feature which is stored in a special Reference Set with in the complete component assembly that hides all internals and gives an accurate external representation of the component (Lets call that reference set "Envelope")
3) Assemble said component at Next (Top) assembly.
4) Set Reference Set load order to have "Envelope" followed up with "Model" and so on...
5) When loading the Top Assembly it will load the Simplifed versions of the components using the Envelope reference sets.
Is this what is still envisioned using NX10 for extreme Large Assembly model management for reduced RAM pull and faster model load times, along with Lightweight representations?
Or is Siemens going away from the Simplify Assembly function?
Or is it worth using, as stated above, meaning does it save Load time and RAM pull?
Thanks!