Topic: dwg file 42MB, but nothing in dwg!

[MP]

DGC -- Didn't know what to call it, lol.

Robert -- what's the name of that sole block instance and what's in it?

[Notsober]

Did you run the AnalyzeThis code snip?

Edit: Would be interesting to see the results generated from the 42MB version, rather than the 13MB version.

here's the report from 42mb file:

Code: [Select]

Indexing #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadModelSpace 0ebe4f24>

Ordered by object type:

("AcDbArc" 90)
("AcDbBlockReference" 9)
("AcDbBlockTableRecord" 1)
("AcDbCircle" 19)
("AcDbHatch" 1)
("AcDbLine" 416)
("AcDbMText" 12)
("AcDbPolyline" 11)
("AcDbRotatedDimension" 3)
("AcDbSolid" 7)
("AcDbSpline" 6)
("AcDbText" 457211)

Ordered by object count (descending):

("AcDbText" 457211)
("AcDbLine" 416)
("AcDbArc" 90)
("AcDbCircle" 19)
("AcDbMText" 12)
("AcDbPolyline" 11)
("AcDbBlockReference" 9)
("AcDbSolid" 7)
("AcDbSpline" 6)
("AcDbRotatedDimension" 3)
("AcDbHatch" 1)
("AcDbBlockTableRecord" 1)

Total object count: 457786


[Notsober]

DGC -- Didn't know what to call it, lol.

Robert -- what's the name of that sole block instance and what's in it?

probably just an attributed header, i.e. %%U PLAN %%U

or a Preliminary Not For Construction stamp.

[craigr]

On a side note....

The lines with zero length thing - I have coworkers that would say 'What's the big deal?' 'As long as you can't see them or print them they are no problem'.

I'm guessing that when cleaning their house, the just shove stuff under the bed, couch, chair, etc....

craigr

[Notsober]

On a side note....

The lines with zero length thing - I have coworkers that would say 'What's the big deal?' 'As long as you can't see them or print them they are no problem'.

I'm guessing that when cleaning their house, the just shove stuff under the bed, couch, chair, etc....

craigr

hahaha... I agree.

Alot of these guys here in my office really don't know much about acad. I don't either, but I know a hell of alot more than they do.

[MP]

probably just an attributed header, i.e. %%U PLAN %%U

or a Preliminary Not For Construction stamp.

Ummm, if it has nested, upon nested anonymous blocks it could be hiding more obesity.

Honey do begins ... off to get winter tires for wifey's car ... Michael can play no more.

[Notsober]

probably just an attributed header, i.e. %%U PLAN %%U

or a Preliminary Not For Construction stamp.

Ummm, if it has nested, upon nested anonymous blocks it could be hiding more obesity.

Honey do begins ... off to get winter tires for wifey's car ... Michael can play no more.

thanks for all your help thus far!!!

[jonesy]

something that deletes all "null text"
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=881.msg11693#msg11693

something that deletes zero length lines
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=7739.0

(might be worth experimenting on a "copy" of the drawing to see what, if anything, it does)

[Rob...]

How about "Ctrl+A" to select all objects? This will even select blank entities. You can then use the properties box to see a list of what they are and how many of them. You can even erase them.

[MP]

thanks for all your help thus far!!!

You're most welcome - truly my pleasure.

[Bob Wahr]

Another tip which could help with self-diagnosing is to use quick select.  If it lists an object type, there are some in your drawing.  You can select them even if they are empty, and delete away.

[Big G]

bit late in getting on the bus i know....ddptype and change your points from a (virtually invisible dot) to a cross???

[Notsober]

I want to thank everyone again for all your help.

qtext is what helped solve my problem with 2004, AND simply opening the same dwg with a newer version of acad, i.e. 2007, saving it and then closing it drastically reduced the dwg size!!

[craigr]

I too have noticed that saving dwgs to a newer rev decreases the file size.

I wonder how they do that.

craigr

[Notsober]

but stupid weird thing is, although we have in our office 2004 and some machines now have 2007, we all have to save our dwg formats as ACAD2000/LT2000 format.