Cleaned up a drawing set from 2008 and the file size dropped by 75%

I was converting some old AutoCAD files for a client and opened one from a project I did in 2008. The purge and audit commands took out over 800 layers and blocks I forgot were even in there. How much useless data do you think we're all still carrying around in old templates?

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victor_roberts297mo ago

Over 800 layers?! That's insane!

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hannah_knight97mo ago

Yeah, my buddy tried a project with that many layers once. He said it was like trying to fold a map back up perfectly, every single step had to be exact. Took him weeks, @victor_roberts29, and one tiny mistake near the end meant starting over. He never tried anything that big again.

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riverg757mo ago

Split mine into modules. Made each layer group its own file. Like building blocks. That way if one section messed up, I only had to redo that block, not the whole thing. Saved my sanity on a 500 layer project last year. Still took forever but at least it was manageable.

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