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Print size over 3gb for a simple drawing

Anonymous
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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

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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
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.
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