How to find out the total number of objects in a drawing

[Anonymous]

I have some drawings that have a lot of hatching and the large number of objects and file size is causing problems when I insert it into another program. Some of the hatches were generating 16,000 objects in a 3" x 12" drawing.

I would like to find out the total number of objects in a drawing to track my progress at reducing the number of objects and file size.

Thanks

[cadffm]

When all Layers are thawed, command SELECT, option ALL,

You will see the counting of ALL top-level objects in your DWG (all spaces)

Or for only the current space also possible:

When the number of objects fewer then your PROPOBJLIMIT (max.32767)  you can see the count in your properties palette (CTRL+1)

If there are more objecs and you have full version of AutoCAD, use this "command" (sslength(ssget "_X")).

In both versions, Full&LT also possible after selection by CTRL+A: Start command MOVE or Copy or similar,

you can cancel the command then, the answer is written in commandline [F2]

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[ian.mag]

Hey @Anonymous,

To add on what @cadffm has mentioned, you may use the quick select QSELECT command, and select the object type desired based on the various properties that the object has.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everybody for the help. I had so many problems plotting the drawings as pdf's I had to try something

else. I exported them as .bmp's and the resulting images were easy to work with.