One of my CAD projects was modeling a hip stem implant. This one project turned into two different projects. Initial project was to make a 3D hip stem implant using creo and focus on design specification and just created a 3d model for my orthopedics course. And my second project was for ANSYS where I had to do finite element analysis on a model. This 3D model was imported into ansys which resulted in loss of features. It did not make it any easier because I had to change the part file of the stem implant multiple times and import the file over and over again for finite element analysis in ansys. So two separate projects and using the same part file was time consuming because I had to redo parts to decrease the stress concentrations for my meshing and fea.

I handled it by learning a lot more about my part file and the hip stem implant was good enough to further go through design modification and test it with different materials. I could of done a better job if I created another model in ANSYS to avoid multiple changes and spending extra hours on just importing over and over again even for minor changes in the design. Integrating two of these projects was not beneficial.

This points out that sometimes it may save you time while other times you may spend more time then needed. This could not have been predicted before hand and I only learned this conflict as I was working on the second project.