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Issue with Open Source Hardware projects
gonzalo_chomon
OS Professional Posts: 53 ✭✭
We are developing an Open Source Hardware (OSH) project.
We meet Onshape people about a year ago and it was fantastic as it was like a dream, it is the perfect platform for a OSH project.
We been working and designing in the platform since them, first just playing and testing with it, and since some months ago we are fully working in it.
The sofware already has more less all features that we need and as per we have seen the progresion of it, we are sure that anything that we may need will be implemented on near future.
After working for a while in our project we have realized how fast the size of the document grows. All files, parts, assemblies, etc. are in the same document as recomended by Onshape and as we think as well that is the best.
Now the document is over 1.5GB and it is less than 1/4 of it developed. So we will provably finish with a document that will be far way over 5GB.
And here is the issue: When we will open the document to the commons, so anyone can access, it will be not possible to access or copy it with a free account, as it will be over 5GB size.
Obiously that is not what is expected from a OSH project.
I am just exposing what I have been thinking of, maybe Onshape people already have a way to deal with this issue.
(Sorry for my English, it is not my mother tong and the computer I am using does not have corrector...)
We meet Onshape people about a year ago and it was fantastic as it was like a dream, it is the perfect platform for a OSH project.
We been working and designing in the platform since them, first just playing and testing with it, and since some months ago we are fully working in it.
The sofware already has more less all features that we need and as per we have seen the progresion of it, we are sure that anything that we may need will be implemented on near future.
After working for a while in our project we have realized how fast the size of the document grows. All files, parts, assemblies, etc. are in the same document as recomended by Onshape and as we think as well that is the best.
Now the document is over 1.5GB and it is less than 1/4 of it developed. So we will provably finish with a document that will be far way over 5GB.
And here is the issue: When we will open the document to the commons, so anyone can access, it will be not possible to access or copy it with a free account, as it will be over 5GB size.
Obiously that is not what is expected from a OSH project.
I am just exposing what I have been thinking of, maybe Onshape people already have a way to deal with this issue.
(Sorry for my English, it is not my mother tong and the computer I am using does not have corrector...)
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This is a good point to raise and we will learn from projects like yours. Thank you for sharing this.
So what you mean is that we make a copy of our document and then make public that copy instead of the original.
So that copy will not have all history or versions, so overall document size will be reduced. That is perfect
I just made a test in order to see how much difference on size it will be, but the size fill says "null"