Reduce a file size for a fritted glass with heavy pattern

Hey Everyone :)

It might be not a grasshopper related question, but I have two inquiries:

1- I have a mega sized file for a fritted glass fabrication and I need to reduce it, any tips? there are atleast 100k curves in one drawing !

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b50my0wwckhzawu/AADwUy2g7uvYvCD3DW3bXZ26...

2- once I manage the position of the frit in the glass, I split the frit by the glass border and then start selecting the partial cutted curves, any smart ways of selecting those fast ?

thank you inadvance fellow rhino users,

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on March 20, 2016 at 4:33pm

You have many duplicates in the yellow brackets. Edit>Select Objects>Duplicate Objects will find them.

Rebuild this thing from only a few long crossing single lines instead of separate overlapping little independent triangles, to reduce your line count by an order of magnitude or two:

Consider a bump map image as a render texture in order to achieve super fine surface detail if you need to, or else you'll need to use a mesh for 3D work, since NURBS will be too big.

I don't recommend anybody try to open this monster half gigabyte file. I happened to be about to take a nap so let it open slowly.

If using CAM software to cut things, you can establish a unit cell cut and perhaps array it in the CAM program. But why would you have to cut separate triangles instead of continuous lines? I don't know what "frit" means.