https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/The-detail-tool/m-p/7032#M67226 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"> <BLOCKQUOTE>Benedict wrote:<BR />The practice I'm working for has huge projects and it's a constant battle to keep the file sizes down.</BLOCKQUOTE> ben<BR /><BR />we also work on large projects and keeping the file size down has been an issue for me for a while now.<BR /><BR />this is slightly off your original topic, however i recently discovered that turning off the option to "Save Navigator Preview Data With Project Files" in "2D Redraw Options..." <STRONG>drastically</STRONG> cut the files sizes down - in one case from 88MB to 38MB !!!<BR /><BR />see archiGUIDE<BR /><A href="http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/Filesizegrowsdramatically.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/Filesizegrowsdramatically.html</A><BR /><BR />this helps immensely with opens/saves/send and receives! it is also extremely effective where you have a lot of section/detail windows and many viewsets generated from them with a LOT of 2D work in them.<BR /><BR />HTH<BR />~/archiben</DIV> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:28:39 GMT __archiben 2025-02-04T13:28:39Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/The-detail-tool/m-p/7032#M67226 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"> <BLOCKQUOTE>Benedict wrote:<BR />The practice I'm working for has huge projects and it's a constant battle to keep the file sizes down.</BLOCKQUOTE> ben<BR /><BR />we also work on large projects and keeping the file size down has been an issue for me for a while now.<BR /><BR />this is slightly off your original topic, however i recently discovered that turning off the option to "Save Navigator Preview Data With Project Files" in "2D Redraw Options..." <STRONG>drastically</STRONG> cut the files sizes down - in one case from 88MB to 38MB !!!<BR /><BR />see archiGUIDE<BR /><A href="http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/Filesizegrowsdramatically.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/Filesizegrowsdramatically.html</A><BR /><BR />this helps immensely with opens/saves/send and receives! it is also extremely effective where you have a lot of section/detail windows and many viewsets generated from them with a LOT of 2D work in them.<BR /><BR />HTH<BR />~/archiben</DIV> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:28:39 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/The-detail-tool/m-p/7032#M67226 __archiben 2025-02-04T13:28:39Z