I love the pictrue tool in Rhino 6 for all that the awesome stuff it does and I appreciate that pics are embedded.
But… as they are ambeddedd they pump up the file size a lot and I do not find a way how to get rid of old pics - even if I delete them and do not use them anymore the file does not get smaller.
Is there a list of embedded files somewhere with a deleting option? Or can I switch off the embedding option?
I know that it would help not to insert 20 high res pics, but I sometimes I do and I do not find a way to get rid of yessterday´s lazyness…
Hello - try this - find the picture’s material, change its type to Custom, find the texture in the Color channel under textures, right click on the texture name and choose Remove.
Hi Pascal
Ok, cool, that works, but is a bit tricky and I cannot grab the material when the pic is already deleated, so the data is stored in the background.
As I now understood that the pics are embedded as materials: I found out that I can delete unused materials with the Purge tool, but this also deletes my custom materials that I just do not need in this special project. So I cannot chose if I would like to keep some of those.
-> Can you make a Material manager for the next version similar to the existing block manager?
In my example I had a 3MB file that blew up to 17MB with the pics (and a colleague somehow managed to produce a 1,5GB file with 3D data of ca. 50MB…).
btw: I tried the purge trick with the famous 1,6GB file, but that did not solve the issue.
In this case it was a matter of using blocks (fot the hundreds of copies) and cleaning up old 3D stuff that is not needed anymore…
