@MobelDesign wrote:
I know that most of us are aware of this problem – that many Warehouse contributors don’t follow some of the basic modelling guidelines – it’s a problem that has been discussed before; I also know about the Certified Content Developer Program and other methods in place that attempt to curb the problem. But I found such an extreme example, I thought to share it here, and hopefully impress the importance of the concept on other new contributors’ minds.
I won’t share the identical model, cause I’m not trying to slam its author, I am just trying to illustrate a point. This simple hook showed up on the Warehouse page as 24.7 MB. I downloaded the file, assuming that the hook had been imported from a manufacturers model and had like 3,000-segment curves. Turned on hidden geometry, and the model was clean!
Well…until I checked out the Materials, Components, and Layers!
It’s crazy! Whoever posted it had been working with all sorts of downloaded models, and never purged before uploading the file. A simple Purge Unused brought it down to no materials, 1 layer, 3 components.
Now the file is 107 KB!
The moral: Always purge your files before uploading to 3D Warehouse.
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