Re: Insane file size!

Thanks for the advice.  This did not work though.
This file has me beat.  I have recreated the blocks using 
very clean drawings. 


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smiley) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> There is one other cause, which I've not seen mentioned yet.  I ran
> into a situation where AutoCAD was not getting rid of the old display
> list (a saved version of the display used to speed up redraws of the
> screen)
> 
>   Once this started happening on my drawing, the only way to reduce
> the file size was to purge all from MODEL SPACE (doing it in
> paperspace didn't work) furthermore, if there was nothing to purge, it
> was important to create something. I just drew a square, and made it
> into a block called TEMP. Then when I implemented the purge all
> sequence, the file size shrank dramatically.
> 
>   However, it would continue to grow with each save, so the process
> had to be repeated regularly.
> 
> Joe