I think I definitely need to locate someone that has had experience in going through this exercise.
CET Designer is a configurator tool with loads of programmable data built in. It uses solids rather than faces and regions like 2020/CAP uses. This however has different levels of graphics that it views so that if you're zoomed out, it doesn't have to calculate all the details, but then it will when you zoom in. It's a blast to use and I've been using it's Catalog Creator to get NonStandard product in, this is where I run into the issue with block size. Within the Creator portion, it gives me a line count which is too high and shows potential errors in the validation windows. It's pretty rad really.
We are the manufacturer of the consoles we design and this is our Specification tool now. All of the big commercial manufacturers are already on CET and have extensions galore.
I was a part of this process with one of my last companies but they are a competitor and I can't call them up and say, hey, what was that lisp routine you were running to take those Solidworks -> DWG - .cmsym files back in 2017?
I wish it were that easy.
Is there a group or page that I maybe missed in here that maybe has touched on this?
I haven't seen @LeeMac in years but I imagine there's some knowledge there.