So what on earth have I created?

Sorry, not been around for a while

Today I traced a building footprint with a polyline so I could cut/paste it onto a site plan....nothing very special, probably 50 or so nodes with some arcs in the polyline.

I tried to paste it into the site plan drawing and *crash*

Tried again *crash*

Audit

*crash*

Worldblocked it (old phrase lol ) tried to insert the block *crash*

It seems this single polyline after writing the block to disk is 4meg

The only thing I can think of is that the origin of said block is a fair bit away from the wcs origin....oh and the original dwg file was created in m units.

Any thoughts/comments/ideas?

Cheers

Purge the drawing file first. Maybe that will pare the size down.

2006- also look at the layer filters on the original site plan and with any copy and paste they can realy bump filesizes up.

Newer versions will get rid of these with purge; but I think this only came in with 2008.

Sorry again, perhaps I should clarify.

I 'w' blocked a single entity out of a drawing (a single polyline) and the written file is 3meg plus.

When you 'w block' an entity no extra information should be written...no layer/data etc information is written...nothing to purge.

So how has the file got to such a size that would crash ?

Try purging it just the same.

That has to be one huge polyline or the line segments making it up are so small and numerous it just all adds up to one big file.

Ok, tried that again......no good.

In fact I've now deleted EVERYTHING from the drawing and it's still 2.8mb

So I started from scratch.

Drew polyline around building and wblocked it.....result is a 78kb file.

Inserted the wblock into the site plan and rotated it to the correct angle. Re-wrote the wblock picking the same polyline/object and the resulting file is 2.8mb

I'm now truly stumped

But no crash right?

Yep, crashed again.

And It crashes everytime I try to insert the re-written file.

I guess there is some corruption in the site layout plan that a simple audit can't pick up. I've now e-mailed all of the files to our AD/support for them to look at.

No work for me this morning then

When you try to purge do you use the command line version with the dash in front of it ( -purge )?

No, I was just using the utils command.

just tried -purge in CL

Nothing referenced

Still 2.8mb

One last ditch attempt here. You can download the trial version of SuperPurge from Manusoft here:

http://www.manusoft.com/software/SuperPurge/Main.stm

just got a mail from the techie guys, apparently the person who developed the site plan has caused some issues with annotative scaling......yet another reason for me to hate this goddam command

Jules

 

This is all down to annotative scaling. What you need to do is reset the scalelist. Type –scalelistedit hit enter then R and enter then E and enter. This resets the scalelist to default.

 

Your filesize should drop to around 92k

 

This scalelist problem can affect any drawing that had had block inserted or pasted into it.

I remember several years ago discovering that if you used "lengthen" on a polyline it would cause problems like you describe. Could that be the issue?