Saving or exporting small 3dm files creates huge 3ds files

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Relatively new to Rhino

I have created a16mb Rhino file which when I save or export to 3ds more than doubles in size. Is there any way to previent this?

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Hello- 3ds is a mesh format - it will have more polygons (accurate) or fewer, depending on the meshing settings used on export.

-Pascal

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Thanks for your reply Pascal

I used the lowest meshing setting and yet the size difference in the files was still large. Is a doubling of the file size to be expected at that setting?

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Hi David - that seems entirely possible - it would depend on the complexity of the object(s) and how much of a mesh is needed to represent it.

-Pascal