Instances to reduce file size

Clone detection module in seemage can be use to detect same geometries and then create instances (one shared geometry). Usually seemage detects the instances when reading from native CAD files but using some "exotic" formats, it might not be the case. In animation below you can see:
- BOM generation to detect all parts which have the same geometry
- see that instances are not detected (symbol yellow instead of purple)
- run clone module to create those instances
The original file size was 5.3Mo. After this simple action it comes to 3.5Mo so size had been reduced from 34%
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Occlusion to select non visible parts

Seemage Mockup and Publisher integrate the Simplification module. As part of this module, you can use Occlusion to detect all non-visible objects from a 3D environment. In the video below you will see that the gearbox has many internal (and non visible parts). Occlusion module will help you to quickly select those non-visible parts. This model has 627 parts. Occlusion will detect 566 non-visible parts. So 90% of the parts are non-visible from outside. If you delete those parts, you reduce the seemage file from 90% (approx.), and the 3D view will stay the same.
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Automatic clone detection

It happens that instances are not managed from your original file format (for example U3D import). Seemage can search and find objects which as the same geometry and creates instances. It helps to reduce the seemage file size.
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Decimation v.s. screen resolution

The Decimation module depends on the screen resolution.

This module takes many pictures around the model for calculation. Depending on the requested quality, the module will take a different amount of pictures (~30 to 100).

We recommand to:
1. minimize as possible the panel on the sides of the screen
2. use ‘Quality’ instead of ‘Speed’.