ACAD DWGS ARE HUUUGE!!
ACAD DWGS ARE HUUUGE!!
(OP)
Well, here is one to chew on . . .
Our city maps (AutoCAD, dwn in R12, now editing in R2009 or R2011) generally run between 250kB and 700kB. But several are running from 9mB to 24mB. When opening one of these behemoths, the screen generates in a couple of seconds, but loading continues, along with a percent-loaded progress bar for perhaps another minute. Both in R2009 and R2011.
Here's what we have done:
Purged
-purged regapps, zero-length objects, empty text
deleted annotation scales
wblocked out
inserted wblock into a new drawing
deleted "All" and windowed out of the selection set the actual drawing while holding down the shift key.
checked for xrefs/images
The capper: each time we try a new strategy, like those above, the drawing grows by 1 to 1-1/2 mB! We started at 19mB file size, and it's now 24mB+
One thing . . . each of these drawings did have some large xreffed air photos in them which were later detached.
All ideas will be warmly appreciated!
Rocky . . .
Our city maps (AutoCAD, dwn in R12, now editing in R2009 or R2011) generally run between 250kB and 700kB. But several are running from 9mB to 24mB. When opening one of these behemoths, the screen generates in a couple of seconds, but loading continues, along with a percent-loaded progress bar for perhaps another minute. Both in R2009 and R2011.
Here's what we have done:
Purged
-purged regapps, zero-length objects, empty text
deleted annotation scales
wblocked out
inserted wblock into a new drawing
deleted "All" and windowed out of the selection set the actual drawing while holding down the shift key.
checked for xrefs/images
The capper: each time we try a new strategy, like those above, the drawing grows by 1 to 1-1/2 mB! We started at 19mB file size, and it's now 24mB+
One thing . . . each of these drawings did have some large xreffed air photos in them which were later detached.
All ideas will be warmly appreciated!
Rocky . . .
Cheers . . . Rocky





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Turn off PROXYGRAPHICS.
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File size was so huge, it 'clogged' their server...
Dik
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We've had client drawings go from 30mb down to 200k with that.
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Nothing worked until someone told me to try deleting All objects, Save, and then Oops. It worked where nothing else did. Strange~!
My file size dropped from the 18mb it had worked itself up to and ended up at a filesize of 625kb.
Thanks for getting me thinking along the correct lines!
Cheers . . . Rocky
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B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil and Structural Engineering
http://bwengr.com
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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David
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I wrote a script a few years ago to run through all of our drawings on the network one night and delete all of the layer filters. It reduced the drawing size by at least 90%.
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