Mark,
I doubt we can help, beyond what's been said, without an example file. I'm not sure
what the rules are these days about max attached file size here. Over some limit it
should be posted in the customer-files NG.
BTW, sorry I see you mentioned overkill in your first post.
Another thing you should try, if you haven't already, with the result file after all
the things you mentioned is wblock. I've seen cases where that dramatically reduces
file size and time to load.
Joe Burke
wrote in message news:5750720@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yes. The order used was: aecobjexplode, -exporttoautocad, burst(aecobjects),
flatten, overkill, and then purge. I also use a lsp routine called clearlsp. It's
function is to erase text entities which are composed solely of spaces. Perhaps it
can to expanded to remove other blank entities left in the drawing. I've attached
it. If you're interested take a look.
My guess is that Arch. Desktop/MEP etc.. leave all kinds of reference entries in the
database. Even though there may not be
many entities in the drawing the database is still huge.
If you know of any routines which can reduce extraneous stuff in the database, please
let me know.
Thanks
Mark