I want to reduce size of overall project. Project consists of 5 dwgs,one of them I made in 3D. Does 3D componets are reason for increased file size? How can I reduce size of dwg file too?Is there any proper method to reduce file size in AutoCAD Electrical?
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@apurva_123 wrote:I want to reduce size of overall project. Project consists of 5 dwgs,one of them I made in 3D. Does 3D componets are reason for increased file size? How can I reduce size of dwg file too?Is there any proper method to reduce file size in AutoCAD Electrical?
3D will take up more space than 2D. One way to reduce drawing size is to purge any unused block definitions.
How big are you talking? My drawing files average about 250K each. Pretty small in my opinion. (Then too I'm used to digital camera files that are a couple gigs each.)
Thank you for your reply. But there is confusion between AutoCAD Purge command and Autocad Electrical Project utilities tool->Purge all unused Blocks.
Are they different? I want to ask you that Result of this two tools are Different?
Because when I used purge command , It reduced file size from 15 MB to 4MB and when I used project utilities tool , It reduced file size from 2MB to 211KB.
Purge from AutoCAD Electrical utilities is the safest method for AutoCAD Electrical drawings. It purges unused blocks only, and it can purge all drawings automatically. AutoCAD purge can purge all if you aren't careful, so you can lose much more than just unused blocks, and you have to run it manually for each drawing.