I have an assembly with about 40 parts, many of which are fully detailed.
I need to simplify the geometry before I mesh -- otherwise I get meshing errors and run into memory limits on the PC.
Is there a way to quickly de-feature parts in Solidworks prior to running Cosmoswork? I tried reducing the mesh size but then errors are generated -- the program wants to reduce the mesh size to accommodate all the tiny features. I can determine which features can be kept or not, in terms of the response of the structure.
In Pro/E there is a "shrinkwrap" feature which allows one to defeature parts in one command -- it uses a sliding scale to determine the amount of detailing to simply "remove". The part comes out looking less detailed but retaining its basic topology. Quite useful.
The analysis is a drop test scenario.
Thanks in advance.