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How to make my DWG smaller.

NEL15AS941219
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How to make my DWG smaller.

NEL15AS941219
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Hi my DWG freezes when I Full select the DWG is 5600kb

The drawing is on Layer0 and I have (Perged) my DWG my which is 5600kb

Is there any other way to make my DWG smaller?

 

Kind Regards

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> The drawing is on Layer0

Having all on layer 0 does not make a drawing smaller, only less/worse structured.

 

>> I have (Perged) my DWG

Purging is the best method to get rid of unused objects in the drawing, that is good.

 

>> Is there any other way to make my DWG smaller?

If "erase objects" is not the answer you'd like to hear then please show us your drawing. To guess what you might do without know the details of the drawing is nothing else then guessing (at a high fail-rate, as a lot of suggestions might not be useful for the drawing structure you have).

 

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rkmcswain
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Your drawing may be suffering from one of the big three infections.... (Post your drawing here if you want someone to evaluate it for you)

Scale List Entries

Regapps

DGN Linetype Data


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rkmcswain
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Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:

Purging is the best method to get rid of unused objects in the drawing, that is good.

I would say "a" method, not necessarily the "best".

 

Unless a drawing contains some large unused blocks, and depending on the ACAD version, remnants of the DGN linetype data, then PURGE usually doesn't help much (as @NEL15AS941219 has indicated).

 

Frequently, the drawing needs to be purged of things that PURGE does not handle, such as the DGN linetype bloat, excessive scale list entries, and RegApps (command line purge does handle last one). If the DWG file was ever edited in a vertical product, it may contain all sorts of non-graphical data that PURGE won't touch. The recent C3D patch gets rid of other unknown non-graphical data. 

 

Summary: Purge works as advertised, but it's not a complete tool by any means. DWG files can still be bloated with other things and each case needs to be evaluated on its own.

R.K. McSwain     | CADpanacea | on twitter
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TheCADnoob
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you can also try OVERKILL to see if there is anything that can be removed with that. 

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pendean
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Share with us your file BEFORE you ruined it by placing everything on layer zero, let us all have a look.
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john.vellek
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Hi @NEL15AS941219,

 

Please attach your drawing so I can take a look for you.

 

Purge, Audit, -Purge>All, -Purge>Regapps, overkill, Scalelist edit are all tools that can be used to reduce the file size.

 

I look forward to seeing your file in order to make more concise suggestions.

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.


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