Image Compression

Can anyone tell me what happened to the image optimiser?

 

You don't need it on v.2

 

Thanks David
I thought that was the case. However when I try to upload images (2.6Mb) I get an error message saying the file is too large. It may be that I am away from home and using the "free WiFi" where I am staying that is giving the error message or some other gremlin and has been lurking about, and not CPL

 

I have been looking for that too. It was useful for other things not just uploading to the old forum.
I wonder if it could make a comeback please , just an entry in the list of links would be sufficient.

 

This was a 6mb image prior to posting. Up to 9mb is possible.

If you could post more details of the image, with screenshots if possible it would be appreciated.

If a file is too big you should see this:






A google search will show loads of online image resizers. The one we had intergrated was this one.

 

Another good free Image Optimizer

 

A recent report on CCS highlighted if the image is a very high pixel count it won't upload (over 20,000,000). I've upped it to 30million. I'm not going higher than that!

 

thanks for link. Bookmarked for future.

 

Here is a sectioned view of a Collins Brothers Radiant Star Lantern Modeled in Solidworks. I had to reduce the resolution of the JPEG image to 300 DPI in order to comply with the upload protocol so there is some loss of detail

 

@Jones the lamp

Did you create that work of art?

Tony

 

Cropping the image would have helped you.

 

Thanks Trevor - I wondered about the effect a good cropping would have had but since I know nothing about Solidworks, I was hesitant about suggesting it...

 

As screens only display at 72 dpi you'd have to go very very low to loose onscreen detail. dpi is more of a display/print thing.

Your image is 849 x 1200 = 106,800 pixels. Considering our limit is 30,000,000 you had plenty of slack - even given most of those 106,800 pixels are white space. We wouldn't show all 30,000,000 pixels as the software will reduce automatically to a max of 1,440,000 (1200x1200) pixels.

Email me the original image to ross at spiritburner dot com & I'll take a look. Our image upload allowance is way above the normal.

 

Oops! had a cropped image just uploaded the original.
I am in the process of compiling a series of images of the model. I just have to assign different colours to the individual components for clarity. I have been using, and teaching, this software for a fair while but this is the first time I have used it for illustrative (artistic?) purposes. Solidworks does have the ability for photorealistic rendering but my all leather steam driven laptop is farrrrr tooooo slowwww to bother with.