Extra processing flows - Temporary elements


During the plan and profile design of the devices, performance losses may occur due to its complexity. To mitigate this problem, SOLIDOS allows modeling with less detail, thus gaining performance during the Grip Stretch operation.

An example:




This device is a tube with a tip and bag and a concrete cradle. The cradle itself is not very difficult to model, whereas the tube needs to model a unit and then replicate this unit several times, which causes the program's performance to drop if the number of tubes grows too much. This situation gets worse if there are two or more lines of pipes:




During plan drawing, there is no advantage in having all the details of the tips and pockets being rendered:




Note that the drawing of the tube next to the cursor is much simpler, representing just the external contour of a cylinder

Obviously, if the GRIPSTRETCH command is completed, the device will be correctly drawn

To reproduce the example above, consider the concrete pipe:




Explaining:

  1. Insert a IF sub flow
    In it, add the TempEnts property


  2. Insert a Sequence, as in the example:



    Here, we are modeling a simple cylinder, passing through the tube axis (see the topic Videos / Simple cylinder models (good practices)
  3. Note that there is a loop being executed to repeat the number of tubes in a row
    This will not impact the modeling speed of the simple section and results in still satisfactory performance
  4. TempEnts - is a Mandatory Property that indicates precisely whether the modeler will process the real device, or its simplified version, used during the command GRIPSTRETCH