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Reducing the file size/complexity of an IPT

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RobertWK
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Reducing the file size/complexity of an IPT

Originally I had a 3D surface model of one of our parts, but it caused issues when I was placing it in an assembly (it would fail to be drawn completely), even though it would exist still as an item in the tree.

 

I brought it up to our parent company and they sent me an IPT of the part, but it clocks in at 32 megabytes (MB) when uncompressed, and realistically I don't want to use it in its current state.

 

I can't shrinkwrap it since it's not an assembly, but I still need to reduce the footprint/file size of it, even though it is only at 1/1; I'd rather not upload a 32 meg model into our vault and since I have variations of it with different descriptions, have N x 32 MB taken up on the server space.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

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mcgyvr
in reply to: RobertWK

Do you need to retain the feature tree for later modification?

If not..You might try saving as step or iges file.

 

Can the part be modeled better or the complexity reduced to show only what you need?

 



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RobertWK
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There's no tree.  The part I received is already derived.

 

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salariua
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If it's being done as surface you need to right click on the drawing view (browser) and mark Include Surfaces to get it to show up in the drawing.

 

Vault get's all types of files so maybe you want to consider checking it in zipped.

 

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4donwan4
in reply to: RobertWK

Not sure as to what can be suggested. I would contact whoever you worked with again and see if they can reattempt to export file at smaller size, STEP, SAT maybe. If the source file was originally some type of translation then it just might be compounding things. You can run the file through Task Scheduler found in the tools fly out of the program group on the start bar. Choose the option Total Rebuild and Compact model History options. Not sure if that will help or not?

Regards,

Don

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The_Angry_Elf
in reply to: RobertWK

Run it thru Task Manager's Migration command. Select the options of Total Rebuild and Compact Model (or is it Compress Model?).

I just ran a test part thru the process where the part was at 492.50 kb prior and then at 84 kb after the process.


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