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MSTG007

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DWG to DXF file size
« 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?

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Re: DWG to DXF file size
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: DWG to DXF file size
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: DWG to DXF file size
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: DWG to DXF file size
« Reply #4 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.
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