I got different results to you, Chris. PowerPack mesh to analytic consolidated some of the external facets into conical surfaces, dropped the surface/facet count from 6836 to 2724, 4.4Mb exported as .stp. I think it should have converted the internal facets into conical surfaces and more of the external cylindrical/conical surfaces too, though. I've tried altering settings to see if I can make that happen, the "curve simplify" setting at top looks to me like it should be most influential, but no result yet. PowerPack's "segment analytic" is useful for separating the converted parts of the mesh sequentially to make settings appropriate for sections rather than global, which can make rebuilding easier if you aren't settling for default result. I used Shark Pro V10 with PowerPackPro, which version are you using? V10 Pro sez it can use IntegrityWare's stitcher for higher facet counts than 3K, ACIS for fewer, but does V11 still have IntegrityWare's stitcher?
This camera adapter's facet count is so high because of the fillets applied to the edges, and that's somewhere that mesh to analytic ought to be finding toroidal surfaces, IMO, but isn't. Some of the fillet regions have been given a hard edge, others haven't been detected. I think PP could be improved by operators being able to highlight facet sections that are obviously derived from planes, toruses, conics, cylinders, or which are obviously intended to be those shapes, and being able to direct PP to fit the suitable shape as closely as possible to that facet selection set. To be able to match nominated axes, edges and other features to others on the same object, as well.
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