How Serapid Accounts for Supplier Parts in Altair SimSolid SUCCESS STORY: smart City Serapid designs systems for transfer of heavy loads based on their “rigid chain” technology. When they design support platforms, they are often provided with dummy geometry of parts from suppliers which are going to be installed on the platform. These geometries do not have contents – they are just skins of solids. Serapidneeds these dummies in order to properly size the platform and position the parts on it. Suppliers also provide them with the mass of the dummy parts. You can see an example of the dummies in the picture above. Dark blue solids are dummy geometries of supplier spot lights. Note, one lamp is represented by one solid part, though in reality it can be a complicated assembly of many

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