Geometry in the file... has extents grater than 1E9...

[Anonymous]

Please see error messages below. 

I have exploded and purged CAD file numerous times. It no longer has anything to purge of explode. 

I moved to 0,0,0 and there is nothing out in space when I zoom extents.

I have created a new file, selected via window and copied and pasted in new file. 

I am still getting the error messages below

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I have been attempting this for over an hour and am unable to import or link the CAD file. Please help.

[Anonymous]

if that didn't work your going to have to totally remove the link from the file and insert it again

[Anonymous]

It will not link. Those are the error messages I get when I attempt to link.

[Anonymous]

there is some random piece of data in that file. Is this  a civil file? if it is make sure they don't have a point way out there. 

[Anonymous]

I very much appreciate your willingness to help me find a solution. I have turned all layers on and deleted most of the drawing except what I need. There is not a point that I can see outside of my screen. I do appreciate your help.

[Anonymous]

what type of cad file is this Civil? Solid works trying to be a family in revit?

[Anonymous]

It is a CAD dwg.

[Anonymous]

what is in the cad drawing elements that make what discipline of drawing?

there is a object way out in space that your not seeing

Is it a Civil CAD file or

Or Solid Works exported to CAD these are the two situations ive run into this exact error

[Karol_Piroska]

another possibility is that the file has elements with various z value and some are out of range. It happened to me before. Try to flatten and then manually check z values for all element types. 

[Anonymous]

I appreciate all of your help. I had to have the author of the file make some changes. I am not sure what was done but it works now. Thank you for your replies.

[Anonymous]

This happened to me.. after putting my detective cap on, I found that some hatches had an elevation of -9.900E+29.. So I got rid of these hatches and it was all good. CAD was an output from 12D, a specialist civil package. The tell tale is when you orbit the 3D CAD and hit zoom extents, it will all disappear into space. then when you Ctrl+A to select all, all you could see is a dot, meanwhile you have a gazillion items selected.

[dferreira-blackwell]

try these while inserting cad change to manual units instead of automatic, and for location do manual instead of auto.

[Anonymous]

I had a similar problem there was nothing on the plan to suggest that there is anything in outer space. I resolved this by going to 3D Views>Left/Right/Front or Back. Lo and behold there were two ploylines floating near the moon. Once deleted everything is back to normal.

[GlynnisVP]

See link for instructions from Autodesk on this issue:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

Best Regards,

Glynnis Patterson

www.ideatesoftware.com

[JuJitsoup]

Just wanted to add my thanks for offering up this solution. It worked perfectly. Saved me hours of trying everything under the sun. 

[forestmwilson]

Chiming in as I just encountered this problem.  I was unable to locate whatever point(s) line(s) that were in a different galaxy based on methods in this thread.  However, I did turn off all hatch layers (turning off alone did not work and I was unable to delete them); then copy/pasted to a new .dwf and pasted to original coordinates.  This solved my problem and appears to be working great.   

[csds360]

hi @Anonymous 

Glad you got things sorted in the end. I posted something online a while ago here that may shed some light on this. Basically hatch origins can cause this message. I hope that helps