Huge plot files

Normally about 1 meg per page. Just one project gives 16 megs. Tried several
drivers. Did EVERYTHING to the .dwg file including overkill, map drawing
utilities, purging, wblock out and into a new drawing, dxf out and into a new
drawing.

Drawing file is 470K but the plot files are still 16 meg. Using HP 430 with the
Acad driver rather than windows driver because my service has a problem with
windows .plt files.

Other projects work fine. This drawing came from a surveyor and I fixed some
layers, etc. to my standards and then did design on it.

Anything else to try? Is this something that happens with HP drivers?

rs

 

Do you have an image in the file? That will cause the plot files to be
huge.

 

They have the big Oce, and I will try to get a driver for it. But until now the
HPGL files generated by Acad's driver with my HP430 work fine. I've been using
the same plot driver for quite a while, making about 1 meg files from the busy
layouts. This just happened on one project; the other projects plot fine.
However I blundered into a reinstall of XP and then Land Desktop and this
happened after that. Something is going on. Panning on a paper space layout
drags. Maybe the graphics card; I'll have to check it out.

rs

 

Not this time. Good guess, though.

Brought the 16 meg files to Spiller's and they plotted fine.

rs

 

Ha! Found it. My title block somehow replicated its contents 500 times.

rs