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rkmcswain
en respuesta a: Alfred.NESWADBA

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.

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