I'm not looking for code per say, unless someone has some that they are willing to share. I get machine layouts done in some 3D package, maybe Acad, but they push it all down so it's a 2D drawing. Takes up a lot of space on disk and makes the drawing slow. I have been thinking, wishing really, about getting/creating a program that would find the outline of objects selected and create an outline of it. So maybe it would have 42,000 objects, after running the program it will either have one polyline outline, or maybe 100 objects at most (lines arcs etc...).
I'm looking for ideas on how to start. I'm thinking selected the objects, and the making a list of the bounding box points and the object. Then slimming that down based on the points.
Any ideas/comments welcomed.