Topic: Delete Scalelist

[Willie]

Hi, 

Just something I came across.

We had one user complaining about a drawing that takes ±20 minutes to open with 2008. With 2006, the drawing opens without any problems. Luckily I have read somewhere about problems people are having with the number of scales in the scalelist.  The drawing had 27629 scale list entries.

I found this on the Autocad website, and it solved the problem.

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5787101

[ronjonp]

Good to know ... I was working on a project a couple of weeks ago that took forever to open....I reset the scales and they open right away now. 

[Gliderider]

Here is fix from Adesk
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/04/scale-list-clea.html

[ronjonp]

Nice. I wonder if they have a similar utility for registered applications 

[Gliderider]

If you use the command line version of Purge (-purge) there is an option for purging regapps.

[ronjonp]

That is what I do now . What I'd really like is a batch regapp clean utility that would not change the files modify date after purging.

[jonesy]

If you use the command line version of Purge (-purge) there is an option for purging regapps.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does this do?

[ronjonp]

It purges registered applications from the drawing. Sometime there are thousands of these in drawings and it really bloats the file size. The one I always run into that usually has large numbers is EPAN*.

[jonesy]

I know this may sound strange, but what "registered applications"?
What causes them and how do they get in your drawing?

[ronjonp]

I know this may sound strange, but what "registered applications"?
What causes them and how do they get in your drawing?

I believe reg apps are added when third party programs utilize xdata.

[jonesy]

Thanks for that

So I take it that it SHOULD be OK to purge them out?