Anyone?

Tim?

Is there any way not shown in the menus that a user can unwind the effects of a BOM export ballooning a file's size?

The file going from 77 MB to 250 MB could only have cone from two things I did:

— shelling and adding mass to geometry (highly unlikely, since I'd been doing that for weeks with mo dramatic increase in file size);

— selecting 772 solids and assigning mass props BOM export (as .txt, in my case), an effort that took multiple hours, and my not noticing until sleeping resuming work some 13 hours later).

This should not be something the user has to live with, not roll back to an earlier file state and redo hours of mass props work while remembering to avoid running another BOM output.

I tried the Remove links feature, but, it appears to work from the bottom property in a list on a given object, seemingly from Shell, then Sritched, then Child Links. I would not want to destroy the very shell work I'd just spent 4+ hours putting into place, nor the Stitched Solid.

There's no apparent way for the user to do, say, the equivalent of Batch..., with a deep-select, with, say, a specific attribute to be acted upon, such as, say, Remove all Child Links having BOM types of Mass Properties Attribute_ tables.

As things are, 772 solids all having more than 5 steps, and no in-built AI feature to automate that, and no external party being allowed access to the binary of the app means a user is expected to be spending multitudes of hours to overcome this problem.

Those of us who love SharkCAD should not be caused another reason to chafe and contemplate jumping to a competing app — especially free ones.

Please open up an add-ons or a utilities market. Please do things that make SharkCAD a revitalized, growling, teeth-baring app. (Preferably, with encrypted node/serial nbr binding, not monthly charges.)

Thanks in anticipation for you consideration.

So, not only did every selected solid get a "Weight and Volume Table Attribute", deleting the BOM did not remove the BOM objects, and to my disappointment, the "Mass Properties Attribute" items were not removed on resolving links.

Prior to compacting, my 77 MB file that went up to 236 MB went to 259.921 MB.

After compacting, it became... 259.022

Oh!

Major discovery (on my part, not that others haven't used this feature to good effect).

I checked File, Preferences, Filing, Settings: "Save compact files".

Then, I compacted the few (30 or 40) solids, then saved the file.

It dropped to 78,722 KB.

Hmmm. I wonder why compacting didn't have this effect.

For years, I avoided the "Save compact files" option because I think I had a bad file come out of it once. I could have been wrong and had a one-off bad experience that shouldn't have tainted my trust.

Hopefully, I didn't create (too much) drama.

Apologies if I did.