TIP: Shrink file size for sharing

I know a lot of you might already know this but it might be new
stuff for some of you. I just did a test on one of my assemblies.

Original size (on disk) of the folder containing only this assembly
(as well as the parts that make it up) is 23.8 Mb. I then performed
Ecosqueeze (a wonderful little program that can be found at www.ecocom.com)
on this folder . Make sure you check "Remove Solidworks preview image" as
well as "Remove Solidworks display list" and start. Folder size shrank to
8.23 Mb.

After that, I compressed the folder using Winrar (which can be found
at www.winrar.com). From my experience Winrar usually compresses more that
Winzip. Guess what... file size shrank to 2.22 Mb.

This could make your project much easier to share by e-mail...

Hope this helps a few

Pascal Dufour

 

Remember though if you are sharing a model with SW for tech support that
doing this will remove data that SW uses to figure out what went wrong in a
file.

 

Thanks for pointing this out Corey,

This is something I didn't know.

Have a nice day

Pascal Dufour

 

To bring a file size down, try extruding a box around all geometry. Then
save it. Or suppress all features. Those 2 options will bring the file down
and you won't lose the important data.

Regards,
Scott

 

FYI - thats sort of what ecosqueeze does, without extra geometry (the box)
to confuse people downstream. The big part of the file is the 'display
list, which is that 3-D preview that allows you to see the model in the SWx
viewer. Extruding a box makes for a simple display list=small size.
Ecosqueeze just deletes the display list outright.
Note: either way, your image in the viewer is munged.

But your point is well taken - if you have to share with SWx, the box will
theoretically retain all thedata they need to save a corrupt file. That is,
if you can open the file to extrude the box in the first place!