I am working on a system, for the company that I work for, that will be storing and managing assembly and detail files all as individual STEP files. The system will then be able to download all individual STEP files for all assembly components (detail parts and sub-assemblies) for any specific assembly number. We need an application that is able to open an entire assembly as a batch process by loading the STEP file for the top assembly, and the application then continues loading all components from the other STEP files in the same folder.
I have done this with Catia V5, but we would need a less expensive application for downstream users of this product data, and Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express would be great. I have not found a way in Modeling Express to batch import an assembly from individual STEP files in this manner. Is Modeling Express capable of doing this, or is this a feature that might be added?