Using layers instead of simplified reps

[daveyk_belgium]

Hi


I just started working with a company who use layers instead of simplified reps.


I can't understand this logic.


Can anybody enlighten me when layers are better than simlified reps?


Conversley, what arguments make usering layers in this way compromise other methodologies, especially in designs worked on concurrently by a group of say five or six designers?


Cheers


Dave

 

[design-engine]

That is how we did it back in 1995 or so. You can save out
the layers as a text file and read them back in to make your switch.
It has been a while, look at the layers options and see if there
is an option for save.



I am using Maya this week on a project. I want to do the same
thing and there is no way to make configurations/simplified rep/layer
name exports or anything. I posted a simular post on a maya
talkboard. hummm?



Edited by: design-engine

 

[Isair]

Dave


Hm, I think that using layers instead simp rep is wrong, pleas correct me someone if I'm wrong, but layers aren't design for that purpose.


With simp rep, you can create light model of your asm, you don't need to open whole asm, just part you want to work on, this is very useful if you have big asm, with a lot of parts, and parts that aren't in simp rep, they aren't drag into memory, so your computer work much faster.


Further, with simp rep you got right mass properties, in layers you don't, you actually have mass of master asm, regarding some parts and subasm's are under blank layers.


Also you can't control in easy way bill of materials if you use layers, if you use simp rep, what parts are in simp rep, they are in bill of materials.


So I don't see any useful way of using layers instead simp rep.

 

[design-engine]

definatly wrong but that was not the question. Question was how to do it with layers.