People have been commenting about the inflation of file sizes with SW04. Ed Eaton pointed out that SW now saves Parasolid "snapshots" of the model as you add features. Since my files were reaching truly outrageous proportions, I decided to do a little EcoSqueeze testing to see how much I could save. I tried three files--big, medium, and small, just like Goldilocks. File sizes are in KB
File Original Default -Preview -Display -Parasolid Papa 387995 120163 120084 118523
3699 Mama 5915 2793 2730 2146 976 Baby 224 104 91 84 71As expected, from Ed's description, complex files bloat the most, 32X in my case. I would submit that SW has gotten carried away with trading file size for speed.
Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"