Does anyone know if there's anything out there for comparing drawings? I don't mean the obvious stuff like blocks and lines and text, but more like the stuff you CAN'T see; XData, dictionaries, etc... I'll even settle for something that looks at one drawing at a time and creates an external file. Then I can compare the two to find out what's different.
One user here has a job with about 50 DWGs. Of those 50+/- files, only ONE consistently takes approximately 10-15 minutes to open. This just started to happen recently (or so I've been told). The funny thing is that his jobs lately will have 1 or 2 of these kinds of files that just seem to take FOREVER to open up. None of the other jobs that anyone in the company has or is working on, has this issue, so I'm thinking it's something he's doing. I don't know how or what it is that he's doing, but it's definitely confined to his jobs.