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Save and Compress
Wow! I thought that "File/Save and Compress" only applied older versions of SH3D. I just tried it on a copy of my Home and the file size shrank from 129 MB to 35.8 MB. There must had been a lot of things to clean up probably from all my modifications!
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Steve N Mavronis - Retired PC Tech
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Re: Save and Compress
Save and compress menu item doesn’t remove any information or clean something. As a SH3D file is actually a zipped file, it can be more or less compressed to save space on disk. If compressing didn’t take more time, I would have always compressed a SH3D file, but this is not the case, the reason why I propose two items, one that doesn’t compress data and the other one which compresses data at the highest zip compression level. If you save again with Save menu item, you’ll see that your SH3D file is fat again.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
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Re: Save and Compress
Pascal, what do you mean by cleaning up? A SH3D file doesn’t accumulate changes, it just records all what you need in a project at the moment you save it.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
