Diast Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Autocad 2010 C3D. I have been trying to copy a file and place it in another but when I hit the copy command the hourglass comes on then nothing. I go to the Task Manager window and it says AutoCad is not responding. I have tried to copy a small portion and it works ok but I was wondering if anyone else has run into this before. The original drawing came from a DGN but I haven't had problems with this in the past. They just haven't been this large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 How large is it, and was it created in PROSTEEL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diast Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 I knew as soon as I hit the post button that I should have included the size (60 mg) It was created in ARCGIS (formerly arcview) And I don't know if it makes a difference but the file, which doesn't seem too unwieldy to me, is made up of polylines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_borec Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 ARCGIS can export to .dxf and to .dwg, can't it? Those file formats may be less painful. 60Mg of polylines IS kinda huge. Have you tried '-purge' and 'audit' on the file to dump unnecessaries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diast Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 It was exported as a dwg. I ran audit and the only thing it fixed were a few lettering mistakes. I was not sure what you wanted me to purge. I am thinking that maybe it is just too large to handle at once. Thanks for the suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph_map Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 If you're using Civil3D then use the MAP dwgcleanup tools, mapclean command, or at least the vanilla command Overkill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logiseek Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Try click print screen in your key board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 @Logiseek: I'm really not sure how is going to decrease the size of OP's file?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diast Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 I would like to thank everyone for your suggestions. I tried most but time constraints forced me to move on. I copied the file to a thumbdrive and then downloaded from that to the new file. Again, thanks for your time. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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