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Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:04:20 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Todd Lehman wrote:

> In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Brad Hamilton writes:
> > I've posted two decent sized .dat models here recently (St Marks and the
> > Baroque Church).
> > 
> > Is this appropriate?  Is there any danger of using up too much disk space?
> 
> Nah, don't worry about it with small files.  Your "Baroque Church Facade"
> post was only 47,684 bytes (about 46.5 KB) -- still pretty small.  You'd
> have to be posting 500 KB files often in order to cause a problem.

That sounds suspiciously like a challenge.  How often is 'often'?

500 KB is in the neighborhood of a 7500 piece model.  I currently can't do
better than 108 KB, and that would be a fairly gratuitous posting (ie, it's
been published elsewhere).

Steve



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  Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
 
(...) It's not, no, and I think there have been a couple large parts that were converted from some other format that were in the neighborhood of that size. --Todd (26 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)

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