Topic: Empty drawing slow to open, purge, insert blocks

[Mark]

There are a lot of blocks that cannot be purged. Why?

[Mark]

What about inserting a block? Does it take a while the first time you insert a block into that drawing?

Nope!

[mjfarrell]

There are a lot of blocks that cannot be purged. Why?

probably used by c3d styles...and thus not purgable

[mjfarrell]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

[mjfarrell]

I just wblocked it all out to a new file...opens in 4+/- seconds

upon closing and reopening

I now see this at command line:

Command: ** Undefined shape 65
** Undefined shape 97
** Undefined shape 66
** Undefined shape 98
** Undefined shape 67
** Undefined shape 99
** Undefined shape 68

and the load time has creeped back up

[Jeff H]

If you want to clean all the stuff out just use
-EXPORTTOAUTOCAD command

[mjfarrell]

So you have reached the same conclusion I did:


The file is NOT EMPTY at all.

[Jeff H]

So you have reached the same conclusion I did:


The file is NOT EMPTY at all.

When I saw attachment was 1504kB, I thought that was empty for a Civil 3D drawing.
I knew MEP drawing cleaned out was still about twice as big a vanilla  empty drawing.

[Mark]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

Even after purging i can't get that.

[Mark]

If you want to clean all the stuff out just use
-EXPORTTOAUTOCAD command

That speeds it up!

[mjfarrell]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

Even after purging i can't get that.

Try my file posted above...

[Mark]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

Even after purging i can't get that.

Try my file posted above...

Opens right up. After a save though it takes much longer.

[Matt__W]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

Even after purging i can't get that.

Try my file posted above...

Opens right up. After a save though it takes much longer.

If you're saving in Civil 3D, it's automatically adding some default C3D styles to the drawing.

[Mark]

at the 16 second point I have now with it, I wouldn't consider that a problem

Even after purging i can't get that.

Try my file posted above...

Opens right up. After a save though it takes much longer.

If you're saving in Civil 3D, it's automatically adding some default C3D styles to the drawing.

But still, none of my other C3D files take that long to open.

[rkmcswain]

It opens in BricsCAD in less than 2 seconds.
Then I ran an AUDIT, Purged it, and exported to DWG (I'm presuming this is like an AutoCAD Wblock *) and the resulting file is 11k


(Doing the Audit + Purge and then simply saving in BricsCAD does not kill the file size. It's still ±1421k)