Have you tried the old DXFOUT/DXFIN trick?

Your drawing contains a large number of dense hatches and in trying to save the drawing you may actually run out of memory.  Can you eliminate the hatches?

Your drawing is not very efficient either.  For example, one hanger consists of 38 objects.  Why isn't the hanger a block?  I'm sure I could find many more examples of the same thing.  All those objects add to the drawing file size.

How much RAM is installed in your computer?

How large is your hard drive?  How much free space is left on it?

Your drawing has over 16,000 duplicate objects and almost 7,000 overlapping objects.  Not good.  Who created the drawing and what program did they use?  Was it Microstation by any chance?

I ran an audit on your drawing and it found several blocks with errors that could not be fixed.  It also found six other database errors that fortunately could be fixed.

This has to be one of the more messed up drawings I've encountered in a while.

Why does the drawing use an imperial template (decimal inches) but block insertion units are millimeters?



Edited by John Connor - 05.Feb.2014 at 21:32

The drawing is a complete and utter mess.  Isolating the Insulation layer one would expect to see the batt insulation on the layer but except for a few lines there is no insulation to be seen.

Whole rooms can be a single block or just a series of lines, polylines and arcs.  No rhyme, no reason.  And rooms can be on multiple layers.  Check on all the rooms there are on layer "0".  Makes no sense.

In some rooms fixtures like bathtubs and sinks are blocks but in other rooms they aren't.  Maybe they were and somebody exploded them?

I'd call the architect and tell him to clean the whole mess up because it is a nightmare to work with as it stands now. 

Jeez, I just found some rooms actually show up on two different layers!  And some objects on a layer are different colors meaning someone purposely overrode the assigned layer color.

BTW...there are a handful of objects outside the perimeter of the building (to the top and to the right).  Looks like someone flung them into outer space for no reason.

I can copy and paste within your drawing but since it is so messed up I don't consider it to mean anything.  I'm going to stop now before I drive myself crazy.  If I got a drawing like this from an outside source their ears would be burning.  I'd talk to my boss and have him call the architect.  It's time for a sit down, face to face.


Edited by John Connor - 05.Feb.2014 at 22:10

So what I was told to do was EXPLODE what you want to copy multiple times and maybe even try the BURST command.

Anyone notice that the last response by pizzle was posted back in February of this year (almost seven months ago)?