ACAD files full of duplicates

[GibbsMachineCorp]

Hello all. We use ACAD to supply our customers with drawings of the molds we are building for them. I give ACAD a wireframe of the part and ACAD gives me back a 2d drawing the mold. I need to use that 2d drawing to build the mold. When I import the dwg it is full of 10's of thousands of duplicate entities. It takes several minutes, sometimes over an hour to delete duplicates. Even after the deleting process the file is huge and hard to work with. I've tried simplifing the splines but that usually does nothing. Any ideas? I don't have a choice on using a different software package, no money to buy SW or anything else. Thanks in advance.

 

X4 MU3

X5 MU1

[Guffie]

Have you tried the "Delete Duplicates"?

[Goldorak]

^+ run the find overlap c-hook to finish the cleanup

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

It sounds like there are multiple sheets in the Drawing that are the same...or something similar to that.

I'll take a quick look at it here if you like - also to see if it's a bug of some sort on our end.