showing construction without giving away all design details

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I design 3d constructions. For production I have to share the 3d files but i do not want to give away all my valuable SolidWorks or Rhino3D files. So i looked for a way to export the spatial information and show how to connect parts but without giving away all of the information. A simple stl viewer did not work well, the separate parts cannot be turned on or off. However Meshlab is capable of showing the stl files that i exported from Rhino and also capable of turning on and off parts which is needed to see what is inside the construction. After importing Meshlab placed them correctly and did not end up with a pile of unrelated parts
very usefull, i can give information but without giving my work away. It did take some work to export the files separately from Rhino3D but maybe i can automate that later, perhaps with Grasshopper