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Can anyone tell me how to reduce a cad dwg file size.
I am creating factory drawings and whilst my drawing size is ok I have a problem.
The client issues me with a machinery dwg which I have to add in to my drawing. The machinery dwg file size is 49Mb it’s got hundreds of tiny lines making up the screws bolts and various parts of the machinery.
This huge file size causes problems with the slowing down pc, creating pdfs and also transmittal.
I’ve tried purge overkill audit but still same size.
I suggest to follow this link and try all the solutions ( one by on ) and don't forget to save the drawing after every method ( solution ) . >> Click <<
it’s got hundreds of tiny lines making up the screws bolts and various parts of the machinery.
If the tips in the link above do not help much, then your badly crafted CAD file with all of those tiny lines are the problem. Try XREF to bring that massive file into your own files to work through, or ask your client for a better drafted DWG file.
Thanks for the link, i had already found the link and tried all those to no avail
I will get back to the client.
The problem with xref there are so many different companies in various countries adding to the drawings and they are not always in correct position or scale so xref does not always work
I would like to know how the client could create a smaller file size drawing.
@Akunkinga As a recipient of DWG files, you cannot control or fix badly generated CAD files sent to you created by others. Sorry. No such miracle software exists.
Thaw/Turn on/Unlock all layers in a DWG file while in MODEL tab, Zoom Extents, start WBLOCK command then window-select everything on screen. Continue in the WBLOCK command pop-up to create a new DWG file. The resulting file is as small as your selected content will ever get.
That's all you / your client can do. That's it. End of story.
UNLESS... they want to pay you to recreate all the content yourself as blocks and XREFs and more.
I've been on the receiving end of many such drawings and it's been my experience that cleaning up the drawings is much easier than trying to get a stripped down version from the source and the time it takes, which can be a lot, is worth it just for the gain in performance.
