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Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:07:59 GMT

Hey bim-istas!
I came across something quite weird the other day.
I imported (referenced) a view from a teamwork file to my paper sheet.
Than I manualy scaled it down to fit the paper as I did not want to chage the scale on the actual view and after I sent it to the printed I noticed that the filesize that was sent to printer was a bit over 3gb and of course everything crashed.
I later tried to change the scale on the actual view, just in case that the scaled down fills would mess up the size but still got the same result.
Any ideas or thoughts?
Paper size : A4
dpi : 600, as usual.

Cheers

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:46:58 GMT

It is probably your fills that are causing this huge size.
Probably one or more fills have patterns that are very dense.
You could redefine these fills so that they are not that dense.
Also, you may be able to redefine them to even less dense in the source file, and after you import it in the other file and scale it down, those fills would still be dense enough.
Also, reducing the quality to 300 dpi will also reduce the file size significantly.

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:25:45 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
You could redefine these fills so that they are not that dense.

Thank you for the reply!
I thought abou the dense fill too,but as I understand that would result in a less dense fill when I am printing in the correct scale. So I need two different density fills and two different set of views,one for normal scale and another for preview,right?

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:11:18 GMT

If you mean that you need a separate set of Views for those Views that you then want to place in the other file, then yes, that may be one way.
Or you could also redefine your fills in the Fill Types Dialog to be Scale Independent (Paper Size) so their density is the same no matter the scale or resizing.

But what ultimately matters is how dense the fill appears on the Layout when you try to publish it because that will need to be converted to the print file.
And if at this point the fill is very dense the resulting file will be much greater in size.

At this point, those Fills in your attached image look pretty dense to me, plus 600 dpi could be lowered to 300 dpi. This may be the first thing you could try. Who knows, it might bring the file down to a manageable size.

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:30:29 GMT

As always, your help is greatly appreciated!
Will give those advices a shot!
Cheers!

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:49:28 GMT

I might be onto a bug here!
In the image that I attached on the first post, I had imported the view from a TW project and then trimmed (redifined) the border and added some new hotspots to get the shape I wanted.
As I already mentioned the print size was over 3gb and could not be printed
Later with the same configuration I kept the shape of the border as rectangle and voila....print size 10mb and a very nice print!
I attached a screenshot with the hotspots that created the problem.
Any thoughts?

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:06:21 GMT

So with this polygonal border the print file size is 3 GB while with a rectangular border it is 10 MB? No other change?
If this is so you might want to report this to your local support guys with the file included if possible.

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:03:34 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
So with this polygonal border the print file size is 3 GB while with a rectangular border it is 10 MB? No other change?

No other change whatosever.
And this happens in both the original TW project and on the TW project in which I imported the view.

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:23:47 GMT

You should definitely report this as a bug.

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:18:46 GMT

I will, do you know by any chance if there is a tool to report bugs or do I have to report to my reseller?
I tried to replicate the problem to a new study but I couldn't do it.
It acted as it was supposed to, i guess this is a good thing though

Re: Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:55:06 GMT

You should report it to your reseller.
There is a Bug reporter application but it usually comes up after a crash.
You should also provide the file to them.
Maybe you could strip every other view and project data from it so it has only the Drawing on the Layout which produces the 3 GB print file.