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today's tip and trick is how to
reduce significantly the
size of drawing in Autocad
As you can see in these drawings
We have huge files
So let me open it up
so in order to reduce
the size of this drawing
What we probably would do is use our purge command purge
all
enter
no
Right? and then if we save the drawing
We're going to see right here at the bottom the nothing really changed, our drawing is still huge
So I
created a routine and
Macro
that
Use purge command,
DgNpurge and save the drawing and
I named it
Super purge
[basically]
this routine
has
some
Autodesk Autocad
Autodesk
files
that are inside this command and
I will show you how to get it later, but
First let me explain you how this works
as you can see we already try that purge command in Autocad, and it doesn't really work because
we have
Hundreds of line types nested in this drawing as well as many blocks
layers and
Any other objects that are nested inside the drawing so even though you use your purge command
It doesn't really work your file is stilll huge
So just to show you the results that we're going to get if I use my super purge command
If I click on it
It's going to analyze the drawing it's going to take a couple of seconds and then
At the bottom we're going to see
That the elements section drawing which is one I'm super purging right now
It's going to really really
significantly reduce the size of the drawing
let's wait a couple of seconds more and
Boom! can you see this? from almost
[9,000] sorry 5,000 Kb, it reduces to
421 421 Kb isn't this amazing?
Okay
So let's explain a little bit what [happened] in this drawing in order to get this really really
small
size drawing
We check here on home
we can see that the line types that weren't used in this drawing are gone, so
[that's] one thing and
Now let's check
all [of] the actions that this
Routine or Macro
Realized on this drawing
We go all the way down really quick and you see
this is what happened behind the scenes in this drawing, so
[many] objects nested objects in this drawing
It's really really a lot
So what does superpurge does? is remove all of these
nested objects line types,
Layers, blocks that aren't being used in this drawing
And then really really decrease the size of the file of the drawing
so
Just to show you that
This [really] works on any drawing. I'm going to try it on
this other drawing
roof one
You can see I'm going to open it first you can see there that it is
around
4000 Kb
so now
Again, I'm going to try [to] [purge] [it] right like we usually do
Purge Command just to show you that doesn't really do anything
all
enter
[no]
now we save
And you see here at the bottom that it didn't really do anything
Okay, now we're going to use again our superpurge. Come on click
Let's give it a couple of seconds
Then we're going to see at the bottom
how this drawing
Is going to change
Boom! now it is
770 Kb. Can you see the difference it is [really] amazing, okay
This was today's tip and trick from The Lazy
Arquitecto
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