How to make .ics files as light as possible

How to make .ics files as light as possible

If you want to decrease the size of your .ics files you can turn off two setting in Options. Go to Options, Parts, and turn off "Approximate surface description(facets)" and "Exact surface description (boundary rep.)". You have to edit these settings while a Scene is open. This will decrease your file size but note that you will have to let your parts regenerate before you can edit them after these settings are turned off.

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