Users of Process Plant and Ship Building design software frequently need to integrate models of large equipment installations and component sub-systems. These usually consist of very large CAD assemblies that can be several hundred Megabytes or even Gigabytes in size. The receiving systems are simply not designed to cope with the integration of such massive CAD assemblies. The main priority of the ship building or process plant designer is simply to reduce file size.

1. Remove Small Parts Remove Internal Parts
Shape Simplification Feature Simplification
CADfix PPS

2. ➢ CADDS 5i
➢ CATIA
➢ Creo
➢ Inventor
➢ NX
➢ SOLIDWORKS
➢ ACIS SAT
➢ DXF/DWG
➢ STEP
➢ JT Open
➢ Parasolid
Import Formats
75%
95%
➢ ACIS SAT
➢ DXF/DWG
➢ STEP
➢ JT Open
➢ Parasolid
Export Formats

3. Level 1
1. Select Simplification level
2. Select appropriate options
3. Set appropriate values in
option, use the Caliper to
interactively measure
objects
4. Use “Keep List” to filter
some geometry
5. Click Apply
CADfix PPS
Auto Simplification
Original
Level 2 Level 3

4. ➢ Remove small bodies
➢ Remove Holes and
cavities
➢ Remove protrusion
➢ Box simplification
➢ Cylinder simplification
➢ Remove internal features
➢ Split part
➢ Delete selected parts
CADfix PPS
Manual Simplification
Remove Holes and Cavities
Box simplification Internal featuresSmall details

5. CADfix PPS : Average Project ROI Example
Save human effort
75%
Compress Data
90%
Save Time
ROI in 3 months
25’
37 MB
3.7 MB

6. CADfix PPS free demo
available on
www.cadinterop.com