Gday Guys,

I was after your opinion's about putting extra details on models, That have no effect on the design, only visually.

The concern came up as I have been redoing all our Structural members to include gage lines & the length of the member in the description. I noticed all steel members have fillets on them, eg Toe & Web. To me this can add 3-4 extra surfaces that need to be rendered. In AutoCAD this was a Big no-no when modelling.

My question is, Does it really have an adverse effect on performance due to 3-4 extra surfaces per member & should they be omitted in the model.