File Size Help Needed

[The Sweg]

I have found that my project template starts around 40+meg. I do have several door sizes, window sizes and so forth that I keep in the file since we use the same sizes all the time. My projects are ending up in the 50+meg range. When I complete a project, I purge it, but it doesn't seem to make the file much smaller (usually only by 200kb or so). If purging unused items out of a project doesn't make it any smaller, what might? We do residential homes-usually around 2200 - 3,000sq. ft. Is there more information or objects that I can remove from my final projects to get them a little smaller, or is this pretty much the standard file size for a Revit project?

Thanks for any guidance.

[Steven Campbell]

Try a file save as to a new name, it should help.

Steven Campbell
Autodesk Revit

[aaronrumple]

50 mb. is about what I would expect.

[The Sweg]

Steven- what do you know that I don't? That was awesome! I just did a save-as and took a file from 52,780kb to 19,396kb. Why does this work?


And by the way--THANKS!!