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Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:44:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
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.

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



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  Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
 
(...) The high detail versions of the 8880 wheels where quite large. Surprisingly, the largest part I have in my collection is the floating astronaut picture piece. (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
 
(...) Large part files I can understand. I know that (generally) means there are better ways of organizing the file, but some parts can be huge. But models are hard to make large. :) Steve (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
 
(...) 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). (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)

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