What makes a civil 3d dwgs BIG

[Anonymous]

Good Day all.

Just wondering what makes a civil 3d drawing BIG (in terms of file size). At
first I thought it would be ther surface but after doing a little test of
exporting my surface and importing into a new project that does not seem to
be the case.

The reason I ask is becuase I have a drawing that is almost 20megs.
Initially I did not start this out in a project environment and now I am
paying the price. There is too much work done to get it into a project now.

I would have thought that out of that 20megs that the vast majority would
have been the surface (a large og surface). However as mentioned above I
brought the surface into a new drawing and it only turned out to be about
2.3 megs.

If that is the case what is making this file so large. Just looking for
suggestions.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Have you looked into purging registered apps?
http://c3dpavingtheway.blogspot.com/2005/08/regapps-file-corruption-problem.html

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Scott McEachron
DC CADD - Dallas, TX

"Landman" wrote in message
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Good Day all.

Just wondering what makes a civil 3d drawing BIG (in terms of file size). At
first I thought it would be ther surface but after doing a little test of
exporting my surface and importing into a new project that does not seem to
be the case.

The reason I ask is becuase I have a drawing that is almost 20megs.
Initially I did not start this out in a project environment and now I am
paying the price. There is too much work done to get it into a project now.

I would have thought that out of that 20megs that the vast majority would
have been the surface (a large og surface). However as mentioned above I
brought the surface into a new drawing and it only turned out to be about
2.3 megs.

If that is the case what is making this file so large. Just looking for
suggestions.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

Reviewed your suggestion but did not resolve my problems. I spent some time
removing surfaces and changing the frequency of my corridors and managed to
cut the drawing in half. It still takes about 1min 30 secs to change layouts
though. Somewhat frustrating.

P4 3.0
2 gig ram
sp2

"Scott McEachron" wrote in message
news:4993277@discussion.autodesk.com...
Have you looked into purging registered apps?
http://c3dpavingtheway.blogspot.com/2005/08/regapps-file-corruption-problem.html

sm
--

Scott McEachron
DC CADD - Dallas, TX

"Landman" wrote in message
news:4992900@discussion.autodesk.com...
Good Day all.

Just wondering what makes a civil 3d drawing BIG (in terms of file size). At
first I thought it would be ther surface but after doing a little test of
exporting my surface and importing into a new project that does not seem to
be the case.

The reason I ask is becuase I have a drawing that is almost 20megs.
Initially I did not start this out in a project environment and now I am
paying the price. There is too much work done to get it into a project now.

I would have thought that out of that 20megs that the vast majority would
have been the surface (a large og surface). However as mentioned above I
brought the surface into a new drawing and it only turned out to be about
2.3 megs.

If that is the case what is making this file so large. Just looking for
suggestions.

Thanks.

[JoaoMM]

I have the same problem about the time of changing layout.

[Anonymous]

me too
wrote in message news:4993867@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have the same problem about the time of changing layout.