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Anonymous
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strange dwg troubleshooting

Hello folks, 

 

Have a few problematic dwg files from an engineer we are working on a project together. They weren't saved with autocad but with a custom program I don't know of nor have access to the originials so cannot skip corners there: need to work with these dwg files and we need those data desperately. 

 

The dwg holds 3D data of a model.

It is built up of individual triangle faces -mostly of the same material. 

 

And even worse, each and every object is placed on their own layer, resulting the dwg having a wobbling 39000+ layers in the document. 

Tried merging the layers with the layers panel before but it melts my processors and autocad freezes. 

 

So how to deal with the situation?

 

Have seen a way to export each layer as an individual file -as suggested here, downloaded a vlx file (which I haven't used yet, have to learn more about the how-to-s).

Then, it would be merging those individual files into one but with each file merged to the same layer? 

 

Had seen this topic on this forum, confirming that theoretically it is possible to merge cad files -though it may need dwf instead of dwg so would also need some sort of a script to batch convert those 39000+ dwg files to dwf before and

yet not sure if that file merging would merge objects onto one layer only.

 

 

Can you give me a hint if it is possible and/or if there is a more reliable workaround I can pull off?