increasing file sizes

[jjordan545578]

i received a set of drawings from a consultant who is using vanilla acad 2002, no add on packages.

whenever you save one of the drawings the file size jumps by 500k, i have tried purge, audit, recover, looked for other bazaar entities. and still cannot figure out why these files keep jumping in size.

ran updated virus check also !!

if you wblock a single line out, call it up and save, the file jumps to 700k, for just one line.

any ideas, any body else have this problem

any help and ideas would be appreciated.

tanks-j2

[mjfarrell]

This drawing is FULL of LAYER FILTERS
search the exchange for a posted utility
to remove them.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Please note I've *moved* this Topic (Thread) from the CAD Management Software Forum to this one as I feel this particular Forum is a more appropriate place for such Topics (Threads).

Thanks, Mike

Forum Moderator

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Check out the following threads, should prove useful -

Need Help Deleting "Named Layer Filters"

Are junk layer filters added?

Help - Extra Large File Sizes

Have a good one, Mike

[jjordan545578]

THANKS,

after posting i started looking for the layer filters, since Eric told me he never used them i dismissed them as the culprit. however i downloaded a vlisp from r bell and it deleted all 18,000 and the file sizes dropped.

hopefully we contained this before it spreads !!!

thanks for all the help !!

tanks-j2

[sinc]

18,000 layer filters? I'm impressed!

[mjfarrell]

I don't know if I'm impressed or scared.
The idea that there could be 18,000 layer filters
is really scary, I would hate to know how many
times these folks use 'save as' or copy-clip, or even
wblocking data instead of having a good template file
to start from and a block library to insert from.
I will be having nightmares for weeks on this one.

[jhohman]

Here's a tip that might help to control the layer filters. After I downloaded a layer filter delete lisp, I added it in the startup suite so it was always available, then I customized the button that accesses the layer manager to first run the layer filter delete, then the default command. The macro associated with the button now reads:

LFD;'_layer


LFD is obviously he lisp command associated with the routine. I found this was a good easy fix because every time I would go into the layer manager, I had all these filters there. Annoying but that's one fix.

Another would be to create a user defines button that will do things like purge, audit, and apply the layer filter delete in one string of macro, like this for example:

^C^Cz;e;-layer;s;0;-overkill;all;;p;n;t;n;e;n;;lfd;audit;y;z;e;purgeall;

Now if you follow along, this button will zoom extents, set the current layer to 0, perform the overkill command, perform a layer filter delete, audit the drawing, zoom extents, and purgeall (another great LISP i found through AUGI). Hope this helps.