ysinitsyn Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 (edited) If you made a complex 3D part, then you will have a big file size. ZIP Archiver is useless in this case. How to reduce a file size? Put your model in a cube . Useful, when sending ics files by email. example.zip PS: You can download the ICube Addin from the last post. http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...indpost&p=32907 Edited December 21, 2011 by ysinitsyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas@Solidmakarna Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 That was interesting! The ICS format is very compact in itself and as you say compressing it won't make much difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cborer Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 (edited) another thing to try! After working on a large file for a while and saving ever so often the file gets large. Once done do a "Save As" and rename it. The New File will be much smaller. Dallas I brought in your "original.ics" and put a cube on it and saved it and It did it. Hard to understand why it works? Edited May 12, 2011 by dhovatter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 If you have a large assembly with many parts, then "cubing" them all is a tall order. As a pretty good alternative, try de-selecting the options to save the facets and the b-rep data with the file. Also, you can dial down the rendering smoothness on all the parts, though that one is a bit cumbersome too. I got some files to drop their size by half just be de-selecting the two options I mentioned. On this same subject, I recently learned that if you set a sky-box active, then use a different background, such as the two-color option, IC continues to save the skybox images with the file, UNLESS you specifically choose the "none" option in the skybox dialog (even if you delete the file name from the dialog, you must also select "none"). Thanks, Kevin, for the help on that one. I had inadvertently left the skybox image loaded into what I was using as my default template file, so every little file I created started out life at 38MB! Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted May 13, 2011 Author Share Posted May 13, 2011 Hard to understand why it works? 31680[/snapback] I think it working like this: Because the cube is wrap all volume of the part, then previous geometry is "suppressed". The cube is a simple geometry, so the file size is not large. When you delete the cube the Ironcad will rebuild whole model using histori tree (like macros). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted May 13, 2011 Author Share Posted May 13, 2011 If you have a large assembly with many parts, then "cubing" them all is a tall order. 31688[/snapback] In this case need CubingAdd-in for automatic "cubing" all parts in scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Actually, that's not a bad idea... Two simple toolbar buttons: 1) Cube all parts in selected parents. 2) De-cube all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 If you are going to add a way to cube and un-cube. Why can IC not just use this tecnique automatical to save and open files. Have an option to "Save Compressed" and then when the file is opened it automatically de-compresses. Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cborer Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Yes Please! We should put this thread in the suggestions thread! Also about screw up and down the rendering tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 If you are going to add a way to cube and un-cube. Why can IC not just use this tecnique automatical to save and open files. Have an option to "Save Compressed" and then when the file is opened it automatically de-compresses. Dallas 31698[/snapback] In some cases cubing and especially un-cubing can take long time. And, I think, broken parts (blend edges error, etc.) are very posible. Need to be careful in deciding to include this "buggy" function in Ironcad. Addin with "As-is" philosophy has the right to life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) Here you are! ICube Addin Alpha version. ICubeAddin.zip Two simple toolbar buttons: 1) Cube all parts in a scene. 2) De-cube all. Installation: 1) Registration of the DLL can be accomplished by double-clicking ICubeAddin.reg file. 2) Copy ICubeAddin.dll to "Bin" folder of Ironcad (example "C:\Program Files\IronCAD\2012\bin"). 3) Start the IronCAD application. Go to "Add-ins" tab. Push the button "Add-In Aplications". Check the box "ICubeAddin". After following the steps outlined, you should see two new buttons. Any comments and bug reports are welcome. Edited October 14, 2011 by ysinitsyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dleczynski Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 ysinitsyn I am interesting as to create applications that work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 I am interesting as to create applications that work 39612[/snapback] Hi! What you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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