Best method other than winzip for emailing multiple drawings

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Hello there,

I need to send lots of drawings in Autocad I find that zipping them only reduces them by 20% would RAR or some other software be more beneficial to me as I don't want to be clogging up email with large attachments if possible.

Thanks for any help.
Tom
 
What about uploading them to Rapidshare.com and sending the links to the person instead ?
 
or set up a gmail a/c and email them there and give the other person the address and password
 
bigjoe_dub said:
or set up a gmail a/c and email them there and give the other person the address and password
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Are you serious ??

Why on earth would you set up an email account and give someone else the password ??

Use a fileshare website like rapidshare and upload them there. Safe and free.
 
I have Outlook 2003. When sending multiple photos I select the (multiple) photos in their directory via Windows Explorer. Right Click. Choose Send To, then mail recipient, it then asks you if you want to make smaller or keep original size. If you choose smaller your pics (jpegs at least) will be scaled down to about 70k each. Not sure if this is an Outlook 2003 feature or if it's part of Windows XP, but you could give it a go anyway.
 
Thanks for those ideas, I don't think that rapid share would be an option because of confidentiality it may be ok on a one to one but thanks for that, someone mentioned winrar and sending as TIF as far as I know TIF sends it as a picture if anyone knows any more about these or alternatives that would be great thanks for the responses.

Tom.
 
what are the Save As options in Autocad? maybe one of those might work for you? I know a 2MB BMP file when zipped is about 40k....
 
TomC said:
Hello there,

I need to send lots of drawings in Autocad I find that zipping them only reduces them by 20% would RAR or some other software be more beneficial to me as I don't want to be clogging up email with large attachments if possible.

Thanks for any help.
Tom
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Winrar compresses smaller than zip but only something like 5-15%. Depends on the type of drawing you are compressing. You probably should set up a secure FTP to upload them to.
 
or consider password protecting a zip file and uploading it to rapidshare (or similar)?
 
I used to use a file compression program a *long* time ago that would compress multiple files in different orders and this would give rise to a small gain in compression at the expense of the time spent performing the extra calculations. I can't remember the name of the program.

It worked because the compression algorithm in use in most popular compression programs would produce different results for different (but similar) inputs. For example, feeding in file 1, then file 2, then file 3 might produce a compression of 55%, whereas feeding in file 2, then file 1, then file 3 might produce a compression of 60%. In order to work out which set produced the best results you had to actually compress them . . . so it took a long time.

There could be many different solutions to your problem as outlined above, but if you need to send native autocad drawings (and not .PDF, .JPG or .TIFF version of the resulting image) then you are going to be stuck with a large source file. You might squeeze a few extra %s in compression out by using different tools but most of them use similar algorithms so the difference will be marginal. If you just need to send someone the picture (as distinct from the source file - in other words they don't need to edit the file, just look at it or print it) then you would probably save a lot of space by saving in another format such as .JPG.

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To go securely from one pc to another not on a network, may I suggest allpeers. Plugs in to firefox, set up your shared folders, authorise remote client.

Other software you could use is logmein but you'll need the pro version to transfer files. The free version of logmein is great for remotely accessing and controlling PCs
 
Thanks for all the responses I have agreed to zip them and send them in small quantities for now, will see how that goes.
Cheer Tom.
 
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