Help me cut down template file size?

[pgnirk]

I have created four or five dynamic blocks within our template here at work, and the size of the file has gone through the roof (at least in terms of templates go. . . . 2.8MB). It's actually bogging down one of the drafter's computers when he goes from PS Tab to Tab (sad, I know).
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for how to substantially cut the file size? Is there actually a way to cut dynamic blocks down in size?
Any ideas/suggestions would be very appreciated!
Thank you in advance, and have a great day! Edited by: PGnirk on Dec 1, 2009 12:46 PM

[Charles_Shade]

SCALELIST out of whack perhaps?
Regards, Charles Shade

[pgnirk]

Could you be more specific? Not that I'm ruling anything out, I just tried typing SCALELIST thinking that it would be a variable of some sort, or possibly a. . . . eh hem. . . .list of scales (I know, I am wicked smaht), but it simply tells me that it's an 'Unknown command'.
I'll look into the help area, while I hope to read back from you. Thank you for giving this a go.

[Charles_Shade]

Try typing -SCALELISTEDIT (note the dash) then Reset, Yes. You may need to do this to all the DB's recently created and your Template if you started from there.
(This is an opening SWAG of an option to try)
Regards, Charles Shade

[pgnirk]

Okay, so I tried SCALELISTEDIT, in hopes to set the list of scales back to the default (as there seem to be over 100 scales in there due to xrefs [I can only guess]), and I got the dreaded "Unhandled exception has occured...." Warning, where it offers either Details, or a button to "Attempt to Continue".
Maybe this isn't what you were referring to? I'll just sit back and see how you respond to my first reply. Sorry, I tend to jump the gun from time to time.

[Charles_Shade]

What's your CAD version?

[M_Hensley]

The command is SCALELISTEDIT and it should give you a dialog list of available scales. If the dialog will not work then you have too many scales to display and must use the command line version to reset your scales (which has a minus sign in front):
-SCALELISTEDIT

[pgnirk]

Wow, if only I had waited another minute or so, I'd'a known to throw in the dash. lol
So I did that, and it did get rid of the million extra scales, and it even dropped my file size about 1/2 a MB! Thank you. Any other suggestions? being that your first one was very helpful!
Thanks regardless

[Charles_Shade]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334440&linkID=9240618
There are utilities for 08 and 09 here to clean the Scalelists. I think in 2010 it is sorted out.
Regards, Charles Shade

[pgnirk]

AutoCAD 2009. And I'm using Mechanical for whatever reason. . . . .

[Charles_Shade]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334440&linkID=9240898
Scale List clean up utility here.
Regards, Charles Shade

[pgnirk]

Cool. Thank you! So now that I've grabbed those, I put them into the support folder where my AutoCAD files are located. I closed out, then got back into CAD. I'm not sure if that automatically runs the .exe file or not, but it didn't seem to, from what I could see. Sorry, I feel pretty ignorant at this point. oy

[Charles_Shade]

Not quite sure myself if it does any more than what you did manually earlier. Like I said though do your template and any DB's you created over the last couple of days and you should get ahead of it.
Regards, Charles Shade

[pgnirk]

Mr. Shade, I appreciate your time! I think I'm ahead of it, at least as far as I can expect at this point. You did save me some MBs, so I thank you! Hopefully I'll find a way to cut this thing in half, but I'm not too optimistic.
I hope you have a great day/night, etc..
Best wishes

[Anonymous]

You have done a PURGE, correct? It's where I always start.

Todd

wrote in message news:6297338@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have created four or five dynamic blocks within our template here at work,
and the size of the file has gone through the roof (at least in terms of
templates go. . . . 2.8MB). It's actually bogging down one of the drafter's
computers when he goes from PS Tab to Tab (sad, I know).
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for how to substantially cut the
file size? Is there actually a way to cut dynamic blocks down in size?
Any ideas/suggestions would be very appreciated!
Thank you in advance, and have a great day!

Edited by: PGnirk on Dec 1, 2009 12:46 PM

[Anonymous]

Just for curiosity sake, AUDIT your drawing. Wheeee!

I was looking for a monospaced font one time and found a nice one.
Unfortunately, it was a memory hog and beat my video card up too. Are you
using any special fonts?

Another thing you might try is to narrow down which block is the memory pig.
There may be a way to check the size of an embedded block, but I'd just open
Windows Explorer and find the template file, select a block then
delete-and-purge it, save, check the file size in Explorer, undo, then
repeat the steps.

If you thought AUDIT was fun you should try DBLIST. They probably won't
tell you anything, but you may find something odd.

Todd

wrote in message news:6297338@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have created four or five dynamic blocks within our template here at work,
and the size of the file has gone through the roof (at least in terms of
templates go. . . . 2.8MB). It's actually bogging down one of the drafter's
computers when he goes from PS Tab to Tab (sad, I know).
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for how to substantially cut the
file size? Is there actually a way to cut dynamic blocks down in size?
Any ideas/suggestions would be very appreciated!
Thank you in advance, and have a great day!

Edited by: PGnirk on Dec 1, 2009 12:46 PM