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Another way of Compressing your files

Another way of Compressing your files

Another way of Compressing your files

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Hello all,

(This is a little bit of an older tip, but I thought some of you may find this to work as well if not better than my previous post.)

I just sat down with the file that started the post about Compressing files. That particular file has 28 helixes in it. So you can imagine how much of a pain it is to load, and save. The file is a Braided Hose (just the outer metal braided section, not the hose itself) and it saves, after I run the Unfrag Utility, at just around 5.15MB. I tried just Winzipping it, and it only compressed down to 4.06MB.

So I went back to the model and extruded a box around the outer most diameter of the Braided Hose. I then re-saved the model and closed SW. I then ran the Unfrag Utility and went to Windows explorer and checked the file size. The size was down to 73.5KB. I zipped it down to 21.0 KB. More than small enough to even send over hotmail accounts.

I named the feature "Delete Me" so when someone gets the file they will know to delete that feature. That will bring the model back to where it was right before I extruded that last feature.

I hope this will help you be able to send more files this away if you need to.
 

Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

RE: Another way of Compressing your files

That is quite interesting. This leads me to believe that the large file size is caused by the visual representation of the part rather than the formulas behind it. This definately seems like a real slick way to reduce the size.

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RE: Another way of Compressing your files

I've heard of this trick as well, except my friend that I heard this from creates a Cut-Extrude around the entire model, but with the same results.

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RE: Another way of Compressing your files

I believe this is due to the fact that SW stores Open GL information of the part in the part drawing. By creating a simple shape the Open GL portion of the file becomes very small. Hence the great saving on file space, particulary with a complex Open GL feature such as helix's.

Best Regards



Kevin
kevin@ketd.co.uk

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