Hi Everyone,
Just to give everyone some background info, I'm using AECOsim, a product of Bentley built on Microstation but I'm running the 'Microstation' option, so it functions essentially the same as Microstation V8i Select Series 4.
I've had extensive experience with Microstation XM but only just recently starting using this new program. Problem I'm having is I just recently started creating a scaffolding part cell library however when I create scaffolding bays out of it, my files are absolutely huge.
I've got a 116mb file which has about 10 scaffolding bays of probably 20 metres in height, when I publish this file to an i model, the file size drops dramatically to 1.9mb. Now I'm wondering why the original file size is so huge, and not closer to 1.9mb as I believe it should be.
Secondly, I built a gantry scaffold system and the file size was 29mb. I referenced this file into a new file, merged it into the document, deleted just a few insignificant items and then actually added more parts to it. The resulting file size was 741 kb which just doesn't make sense to me. 741kb is where i'd expect the file size to be at, but why is the original file that I merged it from 29MB? I'll try to upload this documents in my next post.
Surely there's something going on here that's making my file sizes so big, but I'm not sure where to start to identify it. If anyone can help then that'd be very much appreciated.