File size problem
File size problem
(OP)
Running Acad 2000.
Have recently run across a number of files that average 2 mb, with very little in the drawing. I took one, erased everything, purged everything. Still 1 mb file.
No layer filters, no blocks, nothing that can be purged, deleted, selected, etc that I can find, but audit still shows 29,100 objects. If I take the origial dwgs, and copyclip to a clean dwg, file ends at less than 100k.
Any ideas? Haven't been able to find anything on this, since I know it isn't layer filters. (CDGpurge finds nothing)
Have recently run across a number of files that average 2 mb, with very little in the drawing. I took one, erased everything, purged everything. Still 1 mb file.
No layer filters, no blocks, nothing that can be purged, deleted, selected, etc that I can find, but audit still shows 29,100 objects. If I take the origial dwgs, and copyclip to a clean dwg, file ends at less than 100k.
Any ideas? Haven't been able to find anything on this, since I know it isn't layer filters. (CDGpurge finds nothing)





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Or, saveas and a new drawing?
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
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Are there objects on Defpoints layer?
make pdmode and pdsize non-zero, then zoom extents in both Model space and Paper space
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borgunit, not empty text. If I do erase "all" it says 1 found, and that 1 is the paperspace viewport.
At a complete loss on this one.
If I draw a line, and cut/paste to a new drawing, the file size drops to less than 30k.
Have a lot of drawings, can copyclip each one to fix it, but that's days worth of work for all of them.
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Under TOOLS...OPTIONS....OPEN and SAVE
Go to OBJECTARX APPLICATIONS
set it to disable.
OPen your file and save it.
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WMO, tried disabling objectarx, basically no change.
Saved to dxf, and came up with a lot of "stuff" - there are LOTS of lines very similar to the following:
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GROUP
5
35182
102
{ACAD_REACTORS
330
D
102
}
330
D
100
AcDbGroup
300
70
1
71
1
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RE: File size problem
Found CDGPurge 4 but couldn't get it to run correctly (would run command line, but wouldn't open the dialogue box... any hints on this appreciated, btw), but finally managed to track down version 3, and it cleaned them out no problem. Dropped file size by roughly 75 percent.
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Alex
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