What does it save it at, 20 MGs? Also need your SW & SP version. Are you running PDMWorks at work?
Ripper, food for thought. Go to "Personal Profile" at the top left of this page and put your system profile and SW and SP versions to the "Signatures" area. See my signature example below. This way we can help you better.
Best,
Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
At least your home computer is possesed in a good way by making file size smaller.
How are you seeing the file size if it is only opened and not saved?
What size is it after being saved on your home computer?
I assume you copying the file to a removal media of some sort. Perhaps the act of copying is acting like a "Save-as" and cleaning out the Windows 'shadow' crap.
... or it could be that because you are running such an advanced version of SolidWorks. Maybe SW has finally figured out how to compress its files.
Blimey,
Im seeing the smaller file after its saved and then opened. Im not saving it on my home computer, just the one at work. This is also happening to another person who works her as well.
Misery loves company!!
Thanks!!
Rip
SolidWorks 23007 Office Pro.SP 4.0
Compaq Presido 6000
Win XP
Don't worry about it. SolidWorks file size changes and get bigger and smaller all the time.
It is a product of the Microsoft Structured Storage and the shadow data that is stored in a SolidWorks file.
You will notice this a lot with files that contain multiple configurations. There is a lot of shadow data stored with the configurations, which among other things help with the speed of changing configurations.
You are not losing data. Just a natural part of working with SolidWorks files.