Need Help Exporting DWG

[clipper]

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

[Petri]

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.

[Ozzie]

Interesting

Just had some very big AutoCAD files emailed to me - 44 MBs unzipped and almost half that zipped

[cbaarch]

for very large files you can use

http://www.yousendit.com/

it is free after you register