Ran standard autocad purges and files sizes were larger.
Autocad purge. It was created in notepad as a.txt file, then the extension was changed to.scr to run it as an autocad script. “y” for yes to fix any errors, then enter. Find the purge dialog box is displayed.
For various scenarios you may use one or the other. Finally ran toolpac's purge option and the file size was smaller, but regapps were. Let’s get started and take a look at the purge command in autocad, possibly the best and typically the first line of defense when needing to clean up a.
When using purge on specific drawings, autocad hangs, freezes, or stalls. Unused named objects can be removed from the current drawing. See figure a for the purge dialog box from autocad 2013.
Autocad clean and purge drawings: Purge (command) removes unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing. Remove unused named objects from the drawing:
The purge dialog box is displayed. In some cases, the purge dialog window does not open or the cpu usage may increase but then flatten. The dialog shows that basically no items are available to be.
Type audit at the command line. Many thing can go wrong when using a drawing, as sson is. To stop the crash, open your drawing, dxfout to 2013 version, exit out of autocad (it will cause an error, but that's ok) start autocad again, dxfin, you now can audit and purge.