Introduction to Inventor and Revit interoperability

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Good morning,

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good afternoon welcome to this

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presentation about inventors rabbit interoperability.

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Today's course will be focusing on the work flow that can be

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achieved between inventor and have it as per the 2022 version.

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So my name is Ryan call me I will be represented for today.

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I work as a technical account specialist for

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name accounts in autodesk personal spain since november 2018

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and I have many of my experiences in structural mechanics

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engineering and the main product I present is inventories.

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Um, I'm happy to be your present for today and I hope that you will have a nice session

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A few words first about the learning objectives of these accelerators,

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we will first give a short reminder of

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the interoperability capabilities available before the 2022 release and

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after that we will focus on the new capabilities

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existing specifically in this 2022 release in particular,

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I will present how to import rabbit model into inventory.

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Then I will show how to use the new simplified feature

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in order to in order to simplify the inventor model which is following this,

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I will demonstrate one of the major update in the in Vogtle

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which is the export to the R V T five format

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and finally we'll see how we can maintain the link between the rabbit file,

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an inventor file so that if an update is applied to the rabbit model,

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it will be automatically pushed to the inventor.

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So this will be the general workflow,

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we're going to present with the different demonstrations so we'll

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go into detail step by step of this workflow.

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The topic that will be present today belongs to more global enhancement project

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that the inventor project team has been working on for years now.

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It's about the any technology with the operation of the

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industries and taking into account the needs from our customers.

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It is more and more common nowadays to have

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multiple cat application being used in a single project.

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And this brings the issue of capability and

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mixing different file formats from different projects.

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The purpose of the Annika technology is to give inventor more

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powerful tools to make this file format mixture more flexible,

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smoother and easier for our customers so that they

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can work with different file format inside one application,

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inventor,

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any card allows invented reference a cad file

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from many different authoring application including rabbits.

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The cad files can be edited in their original authoring tool

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and when they are saved the reference model will be updated inside

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of this inventor.

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Reaching the ideal world where there is no capability issues

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between products and five formats is probably not achievable.

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But this project has been going on for years now and will

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surely continue in order to create the best customer experience possible.

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And

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interoperability that we're going to present now is a great example.

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That improvements can be done

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as explained the interoperability between inventor and

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rev It belongs to the Annika technology area

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over the last years, many feedback had been received from you.

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Our customers about the growing need to

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work with both product Rabbit and an inventor

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within one project we would like to thank you because thanks to these feedbacks,

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we are able to make the product aware of

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what is needed and requested by our customers.

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Thus, the project have been working.

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The product has been working on improving the interoperability

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To provide more ease,

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more flexibility and better consistency when working with both products.

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This has been one of the major updates

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of the 2022 release and more to be expected

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as mentioned, the interoperability between

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the inventor has not started since the last version but a long time ago.

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Let's take a few minutes to present

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with a few slides what was already possible before,

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before the dawn step to release,

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it was already possible to simplify and to export to rabbit five formats.

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The certification was possible with the shrink

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wrap feature and the envelopes feature.

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In a few words,

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the shrink wrap feature consists in removing components and all features from,

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from an assembly to make it lighter.

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If you wish to learn more on this feature,

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recommend to go and check the Autodesk knowledge network

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article on the topic which is very well explained.

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The second way to simplify a model world was by using envelopes.

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It consists in replacing a part or

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assembly by an extremely basic geometry shape

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in order to minimize the level of detail

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to the lowest but to still keep the physical information that the part or assembly

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exists and occupy some space in regards to the export to the rabbit file format.

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You could already export to I. F. C. And R. F. A.

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From format

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a futile task that were available before.

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Such as adding connectors, managing the USC, the the coordinate models and the the

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Modifying the building component information.

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This was already possible before the 2022 version.

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The connectors indicated here in red are components that can be added in inventor

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in order to be available in the exported file to rivet cabinetry connectors,

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conduit duct pipe, electrical connectors and so on.

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The U. S. C.

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Checking is helpful to ensure the compatibility of the exporting

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model with the rabbit model that shall receive this exported file

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and finally,

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the author of breathing components is useful to add metadata to

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the model as per the two screenshots on the right.

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This slide summarizes what is possible as per the 2022 release of inventor.

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It highlights what was possible before this new release that we have just explained

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before and as per referencing the habit model into inventor with any cad.

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Use the rabbit model to correctly size and locate

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your inventor design and add connectors for use in

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as well as exporting the read family.

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This slide also represents the new capabilities specific to the 2022 release

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onwards that we're focusing on today for the rest of the presentation

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exported Rabbit five format. Erviti and nick into rabbit

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pushed an update to the coordinate model

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from inventor.

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When the rabbit model

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is updated,

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the article reference will will be maintained

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and will propagate this update into inventor

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when it comes to the inventor Rivet interoperability.

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One of the questions that should be raised is around

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the level of detail that you want to work on.

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Indeed, if you plan to export a file from inventor to rivet,

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it is obvious that the level of detail required in both products is not the same.

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Usually an inventor,

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we work with a lot of details and most of them are not necessary for rabbit.

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Therefore there is a crucial need to simplify correctly and quickly

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An inventor of the model that should be exported to rivet as explained before.

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Inventor already had the tools to simplify a

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model with the shrink wrap and envelopes.

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But one of the major update of the 2022 release is the new simplified command.

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The new five command replaces both.

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The shrink wrap and envelopes command

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will simplify you remove components and features

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from complex assemblies in order to make collaboration and downstream use easier.

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Now you have only one feature that contains all the inventory techniques

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to simplify as you can send the screenshot on the right,

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you can use presets.

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So simplification, envelopes, expert components and remove details.

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Process are predefined certification.

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It allows you to save a simplification

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configuration that we already have used in the

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past in order to use once again without having to redefine again All the below

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source certification consists in using the

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model states design views and position.

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If you already have defined in your inverter model.

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Model states design view and position,

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you can use them to simplify the model are continually to

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this which allow you to win a significant amount of time

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envelopes have already been explained.

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Extra components you can, you can set up,

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you can set the size criteria and it will remove all the parts which size

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is about the criteria or you can select manually the parts to be removed,

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remove details for each of the five categories of features, whole Philip,

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pocket and bus.

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You can either remove them all,

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preserve them all or defining a size criteria that

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will have the same effect than expect components.

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Then

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you can define the output information,

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find them location and a bit of material structure.

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Bomb

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The new simplified command is one of the major

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updates of this 2022 release for inventor that we

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are that we are sure will benefit a lot of users when they are using it for a bit

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and in the

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interoperability.

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The second measure updates in the inventory

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exchange context is the export to

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beautify format.

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This will really improve the work for between the

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two products as now you will be able to

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export a rabbit file format Erviti from inventor and

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link it into rivet to your current project.

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In the picture on the left,

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you can see the fire menu from the inventor and the export up

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that contains now an additional line that is export to R V T.

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We'll see in the

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demonstration later what it does, but when you click on it,

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it directly opened the simplified command because inventor

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assumes that if you wish to export the monitor

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beautify from it, you are first going to simplify it then as an outcome,

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once the simplification and exporters are completed,

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it will create a folder in the bill of material

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rabbit exports

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as you can see on the screen

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in the picture on the right, it shows a very important aspect for the output.

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You will have the option just before completing the

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export to choose the structure of the Fbt file.

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Either all in one element,

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meaning that every part and sub assemblies will be

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united into one component or each top level component,

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so that each sub component will stay alone.

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This will impact the way the fire will be read in rabbit afterwards.