Re: Insane file size!

I once had an autocad drawing that contained  graphic files(s) that
were no longer shown in the dialogue box however were still embedded
within the drawing.

The only way I could get rid of them was to load the drawing into
intellicad. This allowed me to delete them where AutoCAD would not
because it had lost the register.

Try downloadijng an evaluation copy of intelliCAD from cadopia.com and
have a play.

It's just recovered another drawing that AutoCAD would only load 34%
of for one of my cad monkeys. After an hour of doing what you have
done we established there was a problem with the hatching.

After deleting the hatching in IntelliCAD we could then load the
drawing back into AutoCAD....... Go Figure....

The amount of times I've used IntelliCAD to fix AutoCAD drawings
it has more than paid for itself.

Regards

Alan (Cadalot)


On 19 Nov 2003 14:29:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zachary)
wrote:

>Please help.
>
>I have generated a whole mess of library blocks that are apx. 500k
>despite having almost nothing in them.
>My attempts at fixing this problem include:
>- Running purge & audit (2000i & 2004)
>- Running recover
>- isavepercent to 0
>- wblock entire drawing
>- wblock only the selected entities
>- Manusoft SuperPurge (all)& Hard purge every entity I could think of
>- Erase *  (minus my entities)
>- copy clip entities out to a new drawing
>
>The result is always the same even if I only copy clip out 1 line to a
>new clean drawing the 500k comes with the 1 line!
>I'm out of ideas.
>Unfortunately for me I didn't notice the problem until I had  copied
>this problem into 20-30 drawings.
>
>Any thoughts appreciated.
>Thanks
>Zac. Kane