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Old   April 23, 2012, 23:13
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I made a mesh, file size was 600Mo. When writing the case, the size dropped down to 400Mo. Is it normal. does somebody knows the way it works ?
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This could be a result of the file compression, which (in my opinion) is done when results are stored to save disk space.
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I made a mesh, file size was 600Mo. When writing the case, the size dropped down to 400Mo. Is it normal. does somebody knows the way it works ?
happens often yup, don't be too surprised.
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