Have hit 100 MB limit of free plan almost overnight -- now what?

bdubu

My free plan space has been plummeting like a rock over the past week. This morning I awoke to having about 10 MB available and by 5PM (after adding just one new part) I now have 2 MB available. As a hobbyist user of Onshape, what are my options? I'm a little surprised to find myself in this situation considering that I only have a single private Onshape document/project. Is there some way for me to compact space, delete history or whatever? Thanks!

bdubu

Thanks everyone! I'll give that a try.

3dcad

Make a copy to purge history or go public. I suppose you need to use public space temporary to be able to copy document. And final solution is of course - pro plan

ab_cd744

> Make a copy to purge history

Yes, the procedure below frees up space for me…

For each document where you can afford to purge change history:
    On the documents page:

• Hover the mouse over the document
• Click the gear icon
• From the dropdown menu, select “Copy workspace…”
  
• Click “Ok” to accept the new document name with the “- Copy” suffix

   The document copy opens:

• From the documents menu (to the right of Onshape logo), select "Close document"
  

    On the documents page:

• use the up/down arrow keys to hilight only the original version of the document (Not the new copy)
• Hover the mouse over the old document
• Click the gear icon
• From the dropdown menu, select “Move to trash”
  
• Click the Trash icon
• Click the “Empty trash” button
  
• Careful with this step: Click "OK" to PERMANENTLY DELETE the documents in Trash

Other tips:

• Try to keep the total number of your documents to not more than 8, so you will be able to make a copy without hitting the 10 file limit
• So long as you don't need history, get in the habit of doing the procedure above after working with a document so the 100Mb limit doesn't sneak up on you
• upgrade to pro plan

ethan

You also receive 5 gb of public storage. As a hobbyist hopefully you can make your designs public! If you need more private documents there is the professional plan! 

Hakro

Attention:
Copying a document deletes not only the history but also the saved versions and the branches!

bdubu

Thanks everyone! I'll give that a try.

_Ðave_

hakro said:

Attention:
Copying a document deletes not only the history but also the saved versions and the branches!

+1 for the option to save versions and branches when copying documents.

3dcad

hakro said:

Attention:
Copying a document deletes not only the history but also the saved versions and the branches!

Yep, that's why it says 'Copy workspace'

@_dave_ What would be the professional use case for this feature? (Just trying to understand..)

_Ðave_

There's a few but one would be that I could make a copy to share and still have the unmolested original archived.

3dcad

But that's what versions are for, right? If you have multiple copies of document, they would be like file copies without version control.

I would prefer deeper settings for share rather than having backups to secure the original data.

_Ðave_

@3dcad Currently I have an issue with a document in which one branch will not merge into another properly therefore I would like to report via feedback to onshape. I realize that onshape will require me to share the document and likely perform some testing on my document in which I am currently working on. I usually make a copy to share with onshape but unfortunately branches are not included in the copy so therefore a copy is unless to share with onshape and therefore I don't bother issuing feedback and the issue will not be reported.
This is one current actual example in which versions won't help.

Also for everyone starting and even for many that have been using onshape for a while, versions are a bit to grasp the concept of and just making a quick copy is a simple solution.

mickael

Hello, since the new release, when I copy my document, then copy take more space (original : 63Mb / copy : 73Mb).

However, the copy has lost the history. How is it possible ?