huge drawing size... help!!!

[chrisdarmanin]

i have a drawing which is just under 5 megabites, which it should be about 500kb

i deleted all the extra text, saved in 2007 format, purged, purged regapps, audited (which is taking a loooong time with 207,000 objects) just ninished auditing, no errors found.

all layers unfrozen

all xrefs & images detached detached

EDIT:holy crap!!! now it went up to 13mb!!! after detaching!! but much faster... i cannot understand....

what can i do???

[dbroada]

sometimes this just happens. A lot of "undo" information is stored while you are working but doesn't seem to release the space until much later. You could try WBLOCK the whole drawing to a new file. This often strips a file back to its basics.

[chrisdarmanin]

here are the properties

[NBC]

it sounds like you may well have a lot of autocad points or something like that within your drawing.
check what your DDTYPE settings are; if necessary change them to make points visible.

failing that, hold down CTRL key and simultaneously press A (this will select all entities for that current space). that should give you more of an idea of what your drawing contains.

[chrisdarmanin]

sometimes this just happens. A lot of "undo" information is stored while you are working but doesn't seem to release the space until much later. You could try WBLOCK the whole drawing to a new file. This often strips a file back to its basics.

THat solved it!!!! thanks!!!!!

never thought it would work, never crossed my mind...

this is certainly one to add to my tips and tricks file!!!!!

thanks again!!!!!!

[chrisdarmanin]

it sounds like you may well have a lot of autocad points or something like that within your drawing.
check what your DDTYPE settings are; if necessary change them to make points visible.

failing that, hold down CTRL key and simultaneously press A (this will select all entities for that current space). that should give you more of an idea of what your drawing contains.

wasnt points...

did the ctrl+a and had a lot of text not showing and erased that. (with the quick select)

still drawing size was big,

now WBLOCK worked :)

i have no idea why though :?

[rkmcswain]

now WBLOCK worked :)

i have no idea why though :?

Blocks, RegApps, Layer Filters, etc.
All sorts of stuff can pollute the drawing.
Purge the drawing regularly to help keep this stuff from growing.

[f700es]

Is this an ADT drawing? If so I agree with Mcswain and call layer filters as the culprit.

[chrisdarmanin]

hmmm... i dont konw with what it was created, i recieved the drawing from the consultant and i have autocad 2007 full.

and i'm sure i cleaned all the regapps, filters etc. regapps i had about 38, and no layer filters, all blocks were exploded but that wasnt the culprit since now the drawing is ok with all the exploded blocks after the wblock

[f700es]

weird to be sure