Lino® Simplify

Software Made by Lino®

Individually facilitate Solidworks® assemblies with Lino® Simplify

Lino® Simplify is an Add-In for Solidworks that will automate the process of model simplification and will help you to get the result that best fits your application. Companies choose to simplify their 3D models for different reasons:

• Creating layouts, e.g. for project planning
• Protect intellectual property, when sharing files
• Model respectively design obfuscation
• Prevent reverse engineering
• Increased performance through data reduction
• To generate Web and VR graphics

Lino® Simplify Scenario 1 – Simplifying assemblies for layouts
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Lino® Simplify Scenario 2 –  Share 3D models
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Lino® Simplify Scenario 3 –  Part simplification
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Due to increased globalization, more 3D models are being exchanged with third parties. This involves the risk of unintended use of the models. Companies can prevent this by sending simplified and obfuscated 3D models. This will protect your intellectual property and make reverse engineering very difficult.

Another reason to use simplified models is to build layouts. Conventional 3D CAD models contain too much information. By simplifying your models, unnecessary details are removed. This will decrease graphics load, loading times and improve handling of files.

The simplification process is a fully automated process. So once the correct settings are set, Lino Simplify will do its magic. Lino Simplify works for both part and assembly files and will process all dependent files as part of the simplification process.

Functions

Different settings will affect the simplification result:

• Global Settings
• Settings Parts
• Settings Assemblies

Global Settings

In this tab, users can set generic simplification settings like configurations to process, filename pre- and suffix and the level of simplification. Users can use file property values in the prefix/suffix. This allows you e.g. to create unique files per revision.

Settings Assemblies

This tab contains all settings that will affect (sub)assembly files.

Users can set whether components should be deleted by their (relative) volume. This will result in small components being deleted.

Users can set whether they want to delete or preserve different component types (envelop and toolbox components).

Furthermore, users can set whether they want to delete internal components or if they would like to get a part file as output file. This will give you the best result to prevent reverse engineering.

Users can also define to delete or preserve components by file property or by file name. Besides that, users can also specify the name of selection sets to delete or preserve components.

The last option is to manually select the components to delete or preserve. These settings make our users very flexible in influencing the simplification result.

Output

The output of the simplified geometry is always in a single file – even for assemblies. For single parts, features can optionally be converted into a “dumb” import body. An assembly can be output either as a simplified assembly with virtual components or as a Solidworks single part (i.e. without assembly structure).

In addition, the user can determine for individual parts such as assemblies whether Parasolid and/or STEP files are to be exported as well. Furthermore, a report is output as a PDF file by default, which documents the simplification results achieved in the form of comparisons of the states before and after the simplification.

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