Re: Why are my Acad2000 dwg files so big when they have so little in them?

With Deft Fingers, Notlih <> wrote:

>I have noticed that some drawing files are very large for their
>content. One example is a drawing with 8 lines which has 3 layers, no
>blocks, and its size is about 3 megabytes.
>
>The drawing is totally purged.

One thought came to mine. If you have some blocks which are lots of JUNK in
them, you might want to try to clean them up (and redefine them) and see if
that makes a difference. That is one reason why you can't purge some stuff
because they are part of a block.

>Unfortunately my CAD team can't be taught good drawing hygeine.

That is something you should deal with. In my humble opinion (having been
drafting manually/CAD for over 30 years)... SLOPPY drafting is NOT excusable.
And if a 'draftperson' doesn't understand the necessisty of clean CAD work,
they read them the riot act.

My 2-Bits worth.

Regards,

BruceF
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