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CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: MSTG007 on October 24, 2013, 02:04:34 PM

Title: DWG to DXF file size
Post by: MSTG007 on October 24, 2013, 02:04:34 PM

Can someone explain something to me; please?

I have a Drawing that is 6MBs (Xrefs and its a Plan Sheet.)

I have purged and audited like crazy to get all the stuff out.

Save it; still at 6MBs.

I then DXF out the Plan Sheet (2010 Format).

Open the DXF and Purge Audit

Save it as DWG; now at 1MBs.

Any ideas whats going on?

thxs

Title: Re: DWG to DXF file size
Post by: Rob... on October 24, 2013, 02:08:55 PM

Did you purge RegApps?

How about export to CAD to get rid of AEC objects?

It's really impossible to tell without the file.

Title: Re: DWG to DXF file size
Post by: MSTG007 on October 24, 2013, 02:14:46 PM

I do not know about the RegApps with Purge.

These dwgs were in Civil3D. So AEC Objects is probably what is doing it then.

Title: Re: DWG to DXF file size
Post by: Rob... on October 24, 2013, 02:18:35 PM

-purge (include the dash) gives you the command line version of purge which has an option to purge RegApps.

Title: Re: DWG to DXF file size
Post by: dgorsman on October 24, 2013, 06:49:10 PM

Could also be annotation scales, and/or maintain visual fidelity settings, and/or rogue Microstation linetypes, and/or anything else that gets dropped in the conversion.