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Why is this seemingly empty SprinkCAD drawing file nearly 70 MB?

jamieq
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Why is this seemingly empty SprinkCAD drawing file nearly 70 MB?

jamieq
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I've seen AutoCAD file sizes grow large for various reasons in the past, but they've always been associated with some visible or even invisible but selectable object in the drawing. I recently realized one of my drawings had ballooned to nearly 70 MB. I selected all and copied all the objects to a new file, and that file is under 3 MB. So I deleted absolutely everything I possibly could from the original file, purged everything, audited, etc. and the file is still nearly 70 MB. I can't say it has nothing in it, because there's a couple text styles and dimstyles I can't get rid of. But select all results in nothing, so there isn't anything else that can be deleted or purged. I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what's in this file that is causing it to be so huge.

 

 

***THE POST TITLE HAS BEEN EDITED FOR CLARITY***

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TheCADnoob
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Most of our user choose to ignore proxy objects box and suppress it as you did. This is when the propagation starts. They copy things from one place to another and then the proxy objects starts a long twisted journey haha. It infuriates me when I get an empty title block with proxy objects, but its the nature of the beast when dealing with rogue operators. Honestly I'm more surprised when I don see a drawing with that kind of bloat. 

 

 

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dmfrazier
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"...rogue operators..."

 

In my experience, the "rogue operators" are the ones who actually understand it and do something about it. 😉

TheCADnoob
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I think there was an issue are year or so ago where a line type (something like dashed) when it had been coverted from a dgn would recreate its self every time you opened the drawing and eventualy would make the file really large. I want to say it was specific to a converted dgn and civil 3D. It was something really odd. 

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TheCADnoob
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@dmfrazier wrote:

"...rogue operators..."

 

In my experience, the "rogue operators" are the ones who actually understand it and do something about it. 😉



#accurate! Rules are for those who cant fix things that break when they don't follow the rules haha. 

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dmfrazier
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Sounds like the DGN linetype bloat fiasco. (I think that started back in 2013 or 2014.)

This does seem similar.

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dmfrazier
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Thanks for the link. I was unaware of that particular issue.

 

We (licensed AutoCAD users) really shouldn't have to deal with stuff like this (at least not for very long).