Reply To: Space claim files grow in size…

[Marc]

We too are also a long time Spaceclaim user, almost 10years, and like Dan, the company is now pretty much set up around the product and we have also noticed ballooning files sizes. We can get a part that is 100's mb in file size, but then copy bodies out from it into a new file and it will be a few mb. We have not been able to track down what cause the sudden growth in file size, but it appears Spaceclaim does has a history. If you didn't know the Spaceclaim file type is just a modified zip file, so if you rename a scdoc file to zip, you can then see the file structure of the document. In there is a Spaceclaim folder and within that is a versions.xml file. When opening this file on a "normal" scdoc the xml file looks readable and it appeasr the file size stays resonable, but if you open it on a file that has grown in file size substaintially then the data within that file seems to be a scampled mess. So it appear that while Spaceclaim does not have a history tree, it appears to have a history that appears to grow untill it somehow gets corrupted and blows the file size out.

 

 

Here is what i would call the normal versions.xml:

 

 

And here is a file that has ballooned in file size which just looks like a carbled mess:

 

Hopefully that is enough information for Ansys to find a fix to the problem, otherwise we will be also looking at alternative solutions as currently files are becoming unusable.