Attack of the Layer Filters

[pasquale]

I recently noticed our CAD file sizes were getting out of control in the office (upwards of 3Meg for a relatively small file). I found all these 'layerfilters' that were cluttering up the file size and found a lisp that got rid of them and dropped the file sizes down to 3-400kb (PERFECT!)

However.....

half of our office uses AutoCad 2002... the other half uses ADT 3.3 (why the split, you ask? I wish i knew!) The 2002 users ran the lisp once, and their files shrank and stayed nice and small. But, when the ADT users open one of the small files, the extra layerfilters which had previously been gotten rid of... suddenly return! *GASPS* and the file sizes go back up to 3+ megs. Is there a setting in 3.3 which automatically loads these layerfilters? where do they come from? If my CAD-jockies have been cutting and pasting from other projects, they could be importing the layer filters inadvertantly... but they swear they're not doing that (only time will tell, i guess)

Can anyone recommend a 'sure fix' for this problem to permanatly bannish all extraneous layer filters?

sincerely... the bandwidth nazi

[Bloodwig80]

i think i know the reason why half the office is on 02 and the other half on 3.3

because the company couldnt afford to buy the licenses all at once. :?
as far as the other question, i cant help you. :geek:

[pasquale]

i found the problem... they were cutting and pasting from layer-filter-rich files into clean files and dragging the muck with them.


.... they've since been lectured....

[Bloodwig80]

ha! who wouldave known it was something so simple as that. yet, as it is 98% of the time.. operator error.