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Al
07-08-2007, 10:31 AM
One issue I've now run into is the large amount of edges and faces in my bottle design. Each bottle adds almost 1/2 meg to the pdf file. When I combine this with all of the edges and faces of the wine racking ( a 1,000 bottle cellar can have a TON of edges/faces just in the racking alone ) the files are getting way to large to email to the average client ( over 8-9 meg in size ).

Al did a version with fewer faces but sill adds a lot to the 3dpdf file size.

Anyone found a way to do a curved solid like this bottle that greatly reduces the edge/faces without losing the smoothness of the solid ???

RPS 3D PDF should only be including the edges at the top of the bottle, but not the smoothed edges. That is a bug and we will fix it next week.

Al
07-11-2007, 11:50 PM
This has been fixed in version G11i

Art Stratemeyer
07-15-2007, 07:46 AM
This did the trick !!! Smoothed the curves AND reduced file size big time !!

a wine bottle that came out as 516k now comes in at 138k in the new version.

Thanks guys

Al
07-15-2007, 08:53 AM
Glad this helped.

We hope to be able to do more in the future if we can find a more effiecient way to pass the edges to U3D.