topic Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9... in Revit Structure Forum

Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 16:21:29 GMT

Please see error messages below.

I have exploded and purged CAD file numerous times. It no longer has anything to purge of explode.

I moved to 0,0,0 and there is nothing out in space when I zoom extents.

I have created a new file, selected via window and copied and pasted in new file.

I am still getting the error messages below

I have been attempting this for over an hour and am unable to import or link the CAD file. Please help.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:09:07 GMT

if that didn't work your going to have to totally remove the link from the file and insert it again

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:24:27 GMT

It will not link. Those are the error messages I get when I attempt to link.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:30:58 GMT

there is some random piece of data in that file. Is this a civil file? if it is make sure they don't have a point way out there.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:38:11 GMT

I very much appreciate your willingness to help me find a solution. I have turned all layers on and deleted most of the drawing except what I need. There is not a point that I can see outside of my screen. I do appreciate your help.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:42:25 GMT

what type of cad file is this Civil? Solid works trying to be a family in revit?

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:43:33 GMT

It is a CAD dwg.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 May 2019 19:47:50 GMT

what is in the cad drawing elements that make what discipline of drawing?

there is a object way out in space that your not seeing

Is it a Civil CAD file or

Or Solid Works exported to CAD these are the two situations ive run into this exact error

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Karol_Piroska — Tue, 07 May 2019 11:39:19 GMT

another possibility is that the file has elements with various z value and some are out of range. It happened to me before. Try to flatten and then manually check z values for all element types.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2019 12:10:10 GMT

I appreciate all of your help. I had to have the author of the file make some changes. I am not sure what was done but it works now. Thank you for your replies.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:37:27 GMT

This happened to me.. after putting my detective cap on, I found that some hatches had an elevation of -9.900E+29.. So I got rid of these hatches and it was all good. CAD was an output from 12D, a specialist civil package. The tell tale is when you orbit the 3D CAD and hit zoom extents, it will all disappear into space. then when you Ctrl+A to select all, all you could see is a dot, meanwhile you have a gazillion items selected.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

dferreira-blackwell — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:21:39 GMT

try these while inserting cad change to manual units instead of automatic, and for location do manual instead of auto.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:51:13 GMT

I had a similar problem there was nothing on the plan to suggest that there is anything in outer space. I resolved this by going to 3D Views>Left/Right/Front or Back. Lo and behold there were two ploylines floating near the moon. Once deleted everything is back to normal.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

GlynnisVP — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:22:55 GMT

See link for instructions from Autodesk on this issue:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Revit-Importing-a-DWG-into-Revit-prompts-warning-Some-numerical-data-within-the-imported-file-was-out-of-range-This-numerical-data-has-been-truncated.html

Best Regards,

Glynnis Patterson

www.ideatesoftware.com

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

JuJitsoup — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:51:12 GMT

Just wanted to add my thanks for offering up this solution. It worked perfectly. Saved me hours of trying everything under the sun.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

forestmwilson — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:00:42 GMT

Chiming in as I just encountered this problem. I was unable to locate whatever point(s) line(s) that were in a different galaxy based on methods in this thread. However, I did turn off all hatch layers (turning off alone did not work and I was unable to delete them); then copy/pasted to a new .dwf and pasted to original coordinates. This solved my problem and appears to be working great.

Re: Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

csds360 — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:11:31 GMT

hi @Anonymous

Glad you got things sorted in the end. I posted something online a while ago here that may shed some light on this. Basically hatch origins can cause this message. I hope that helps