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No rating yet Subject: Re: Save your work Author: Martin Liddle Date: 2000-11-30 13:21:00In article , Vezina, Martin writes > How do you save (store) your work (model) when it is finished ? I'm > not asking about the save command !! I mean, how do you manage to > save the important files (database, results file, ...) to retrieve > them after 6 months for example ?
As usual I'm out of step with the rest of the world :-( I find the log file method too tedious for big 3D models. I tend to keep the database file (note that it compresses very effectively using gzip (under Unix) or Winzip (under NT)). I do use command files to apply the loading data and keep them. I also keep results files (these also reduce in size using compression but not as effectively as database files) for several years to allow quick access to results to answer occasional customer questions that crop up long after you have forgotten about the job. If long term (say greater than 5 years) access to the data is important then I'd agree with the suggestions to export it to ASCII using CDWRITE.