3ds Max tutorial : how to save hard disk space and memory usage. Assalaamualaikum. My name is Widhi Muttaqien. In this 3ds max tutorial we’re going to cover several methods to save hard disk space when working with 3ds Max. We’re going to cover 3 things: file compression, instantiation and proxy. File compression Okay first about file compression. It is hard to believe that a lot of 3ds max users don’t know that there is a file compression feature built in into 3ds max. And t