Combine AD.ASM to Single Body for Printing

[danbrinkman89]

I have been using Geomagic for a few years, but now running into questions as I am trying to 3D Print some of my designs.
I have a small 21 piece assembly (about 6" x 1.5" x 1") that I would like to print. When I export the part to .STL I get a large file...212 MB (It is .5MB as a SAT FIle or 2.1 MB as IGES).
Anyway, is there an easy way to combine all of the parts into a single body so that I can keep the STL file size down and be able to slice it? My computers MAX's out on 8GB RAM quickly.
I am thinking my next step may be to use MasterCAM at work and make a solid body out of it, any better solutions out there?

Dan

 

[danbrinkman89]

Simplified a couple of parts and did an assembly Boolean, the STL file is 200 MB.

 

[DavidJ]

Check the STL export settings. Over fine resolution will lead to large files. ASCII files also tend to be larger than Binary.

 

[danbrinkman89]

Thanks David, I pushed all of the STL export numbers towards the high end, and got a 75 MB part that could be sliced.
I will have to see how the print looks compared to the values I used before.