Packaging Data Into Your Applications

Packaging data into your Applications has many advantages including:

• Integrating your application into a single file
• Making your application easier to share with others
• Ensuring the correct version of data files are associated with the application
• Minimizing or eliminating the possibility of application corruption should one or more files become modified or lost
• Packaged applications generally load faster

Generally you would not package data into an application during the early development of your project models. As we teach in our video tutorials we recommend that you frequently save your applications with a modified name (such as a serial number or -letter) so if you find you've gone down a wrong path you can go back to your last correct version.

 

I often find that it is best to work with a coarser resolution to keep compute times low and segregate my tasks depending on the scope of the project. Only once your work is nearing a final stage or you need to make interim deliverables to teammates would it make sense to package data with your application.