cleaning drawings of hidden items
cleaning drawings of hidden items
(OP)
Hi Everyone,
I work for a firm where we receive drawings from a wide variety of companies, architects, mechanical engineers, county offices, and the list goes on and on.
Some of the drawings we receive contain a large amount of stuff that we cannot see or find. We turn on all the layers and purge and purge until there are no longer any items to be purged. But, still some drawings are several megabytes larger than they should be. We have tried and tried to make the drawings smaller all without result.
Does anyone know of something we have not done that we need to do? Or does anyone know of a technique that can be used that will get rid of all the garbage that might come with a file?
Thanks in advance for your help...
David in NY
I work for a firm where we receive drawings from a wide variety of companies, architects, mechanical engineers, county offices, and the list goes on and on.
Some of the drawings we receive contain a large amount of stuff that we cannot see or find. We turn on all the layers and purge and purge until there are no longer any items to be purged. But, still some drawings are several megabytes larger than they should be. We have tried and tried to make the drawings smaller all without result.
Does anyone know of something we have not done that we need to do? Or does anyone know of a technique that can be used that will get rid of all the garbage that might come with a file?
Thanks in advance for your help...
David in NY





RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
ADT 2004
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
You have to select the objects with a crossing window -> "_wblock" -> open the new *.dwg -> explode...
Lothar
ADT 2004
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
Robert
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
do you have a proxy-warning?
2D/3D?
Which AC-version are you using?
ADT 2004
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
Layer Filters
Unused groups
Empty Text
Registered Applications
That usually fixes the issue. We rarely have any problems with proxy objects, but that has happened too.
The first three have lisp routines available, and the last one is through the commandline (-purge) options of purge.
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
IMO that is the only way that works everytime.
RE: cleaning drawings of hidden items
Thanks everyone for all your help and advice.