clipper Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Hi There, I am trying to export about 20 pages of A3 drawings to a DWG file and I'm having trouble reducing the file size so it can be emailed. The drawing has 3D components on the design layer with view ports to the sheet layers. Each sheet seems to export a DWG that is approx 7mb. I have tried all the export options and tried "convert copy to lines" and then export...but with no great success. It would be great to simply convert everyting i see on the sheet layer (view port, text, etc included) into 2D lines and export........any advie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Zip it before emailing. DWGs usually compress very well. There is something strange in VW's DWG-files: they can be several times bigger than same data saved in AutoCAD. Quote Link to comment
Ozzie Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Interesting Just had some very big AutoCAD files emailed to me - 44 MBs unzipped and almost half that zipped Quote Link to comment
cbaarch Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 for very large files you can use http://www.yousendit.com/ it is free after you register Quote Link to comment
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