wow, I have just seen, that you put them all together. It is a good idea, becasue when I worked on one by one, I somehow lost the sense for the size of each one.
thank you Don!
But I have a question: How come that all my round things are not really round here. I mean bores and fillets. Only the bodies seem to be smooth. Is it because of STEP?

You’re welcome. I was having the same problem – trying to understand how big each one is, so this helped me understand a little better. I think I missed at least two of your models, so I may have to modify it.

My guess (and it is only a guess) is that the translator saves space by faceting the curves to reduce file size. It would be interesting to create several models and see if the faceting increases as more models are added as it gets closer to the 2MB limit.

Another approach would be to take your original model, make sure it comes in to 3DXML round and then add the resulting 3DXML model to another Shape model to see if the faceting happens then. Decimation seems to be a black art that always depends on the exact steps that are followed and using which formats. It drives me crazy!

But, it is still great to be able to pack so much information into a smaller model and share it with the ability to spin and zoom and rescale, etc. :D

Wow…! U’re the 3D master
Don…!
Good Job

you know Don, basically I do not care a lot about the “real roundness”. I was just curious what it could be. I am still fascinated by the reduction that your 3Dvia importer does with STEP. You just need to look on the original file size when I upload my models and the result in 3DXML. It is amazing!
Btw, the facetting is right after the upload to 3DVia, so directly from STEP to 3DXML.

yep,right
puting each missle,rocket and bomb in a separate rack.why don’t cover them with chocholate?

@alfredix – Sorry I missed your message about where the faceting occurs – thank you!

@sady – Boy, talk about a crunchy nougat center (that’s a US advertising line for a popular candy bar)! The chocolate eater would be in for a big surprise :D

i was talking by the big number of explosive devices in the weaponary of us,let’s say,as i think these bombs are they’re
covering them in racks would take materials and resources,wich are important.if you’d blow all the conventional bombs in the world,the’d barely,but would get close to a quite big percentage of the total number of atomic bombs that america/russia have.
so i consider that puting them into those would be a waste of metal and $$

I always thought that the model size was reduced because of how much you clould see at a time, for example, if something is hidden behind a wall, you do not need to see that, so it does not load it, but if you are seeing it, then it is loading those parts.