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shaney

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Registered: 03/15/06

File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 6, 2009 8:44 PM

Should purging the styles from Inventor files reduce the size of the file? I read that it would speed up opening. Is that significantly true?

msklein

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Registered: 12/12/03

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 6, 2009 9:58 PM

in response to: shaney

NO purging required, again if you have not been told this is not AUTOCAD. You are no longer using Acad so stop thinking like you are, it will really help you. Sorry for my attitude but.

msk

shaney

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Registered: 03/15/06

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 6, 2009 10:08 PM

in response to: msklein

Thanks for the input. I never used AutoCad much at all. I got the purge idea from this newsletter:

http://newsletters.hagerman.com/newsletters/ebul64-Mech.htm

in particular this statement:
"The Purge option looks at the same file or files that you selected and removes all unused styles from your files. This is most beneficial on large assemblies as removing the unused styles can reduce the memory footprint of that large assembly."

I may have taken this out of context though because I don't understand everything he describes in the letter. Any explanations would be greatly appreciated.

Dennis Jeffrey

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 6, 2009 10:07 PM

in response to: shaney

it may or may not reduce file size significantly unused styles are
stored (cached)inside of the file.
--
Dennis Jeffrey, Autodesk Inventor Certified Expert
Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified Expert.
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr. Tel. (260) 399-6615
http://teknigroup.com

msklein

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Registered: 12/12/03

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 6, 2009 10:55 PM

in response to: Dennis Jeffrey

So Dennis has what i was taught in my training classes (IV3.....)way back in the early days wrong or changed since my last training class(IV8)? I did open and have started to look at the listed link.

thanks

msk

outside of the material library.

Edited by: msklein on Nov 6, 2009 10:56 PM

Dennis Jeffrey

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 7, 2009 12:16 AM

in response to: msklein

Style library was introduced in an earlier edition ( somewhere around
+/- version 8. Before that time, all the styles were native to the
templates. As a result they got very large and unwieldy. Once the
external styles libraries were introduced, they were removed from the
templates, and only templates that were actually used in your design
were cached in each individual file. Unless you got into the habit of
creating many styles within an individual file, purging will have much
less effect.

To test this out, simply turn off the styles Library (use styles Library
= no). Then, open a new file from any one of your templates. You'll find
that your styles are very limited. Materials and colors will be almost
nonexistent.
--
Dennis Jeffrey, Autodesk Inventor Certified Expert
Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified Expert.
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr. Tel. (260) 399-6615
http://teknigroup.com

msklein

Posts: 866
Registered: 12/12/03

Re: File Size Reduction with Purge Styles?
Posted: Nov 9, 2009 3:58 PM

in response to: Dennis Jeffrey

I think it may have been 7 as i had to redo my formats back then, and the company folded just as 8 came out. No big deal realy does not matter when.

thanks

msk

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