points of origin of the parts in a step file

[Daniele T.]

Good morning.
to create "public" animations we gave an external study the step file of a machine.
ask us "if we have the opportunity to center the points of origin of the various elements, because they are currently moved from the center and make the processing much more complex".
I asked our assistance that tells me that with the cad I do not parametric this is not possible. . .
Does anyone have experience about it or know how to solve it?
Thank you.

 

[cacciatorino]

You can move all your assembly near the absolute origin, and then send it back. created a c/geo plan so you can see where the 0.0.0 point is.

 

[Daniele T.]

You can move all your assembly near the absolute origin, and then send it back. created a c/geo plan so you can see where the 0.0.0 point is.

Thank you. I'll try. . .
but from what I understand the problem they have with all the individual parts.

 

[cacciatorino]

Thank you. I'll try. . .
but from what I understand the problem they have with all the individual parts.

If all of them were created far from their origin, it is likely that there is the problem. try to move faces instead of parts.

 

[Cadinpiedi]

Good evening, let's look at the other side of the medal:
the problem is also in the animation program. If for example your step file is imported into keyshot the parts could be animated in translation or rotation by choosing a pivot point of the part itself without worrying about the origins.

 

[Daniele T.]

Good evening, let's look at the other side of the medal:
the problem is also in the animation program. If for example your step file is imported into keyshot the parts could be animated in translation or rotation by choosing a pivot point of the part itself without worrying about the origins.

at the end the problem is always costs. the study that makes animation can also do the work of accommodation of these blessed points of origin... Of course (what scandalous! ) they invoice the extra time needed.

 

[Cadinpiedi]

at the end the problem is always costs. the study that makes animation can also do the work of accommodation of these blessed points of origin... Of course (what scandalous! ) they invoice the extra time needed.

Well, it's about alternatives. as I told you there are those who can do the video without moving the origins.. .

 

[Kaji]

I personally did not understand, when you save the step of a component, group or part that is, at the root level, that is, not in another group, the position in which it was located is also stored.
so in theory if you properly urinate your machine and location on the origin and save the step, should also be stored the location.
another thing that I miss is but the video that should do, you have to do it with components in relative motion, if it is so in this case however they have to impose constraints, rigid and relationships therefore the work becomes much more honorable regardless of whether you should or not reposition them.
Finally if the machine is very complex and of large size you are sure that you do not agree first make a simplification directly with modeling, or even make you do directly the video with modeling, certainly it is not comparable to keyshot but already version 20.2 seems to me that it has augmented reality as well as rendering.

 

[cacciatorino]

I personally did not understand, when you save the step of a component, group or part that is, at the root level, that is, not in another group, the position in which it was located is also stored.
so in theory if you properly urinate your machine and location on the origin and save the step, should also be stored the location.

The modeling problem is that when you create a new part it assigns to it those of the "world" space and not a point near the geometry of the piece itself. then when you load these pieces on other cad happens the trouble, because it tries to simultaneously view both the geometry and the frame of reference, which maybe is 10 meters from the piece.

 

[Kaji]

probably you are right and this would explain why when you use the scale command without specifying "the origin" you are shot the piece in space, but it should be noted that although it is true that if you start modeling a solid away from the origin and saved it is reloaded at the point where it was generated, if it is moved and settled both in pkg format and in acis format, the point where it appears after loading it coincides to that of the last save