dxfdedupli allows for you to remove duplicate entities from DXF files.

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Requirements:

[Python 3.6+](https://www.python.org/)

On macOS install [homebrew](https://brew.sh/) and then in a terminal: 
`brew install python3`

On linux systems there will likely be a package you can install called python3.

On Windows you can just download the installer from the website.

[ezdxf](https://github.com/mozman/ezdxf)

After you install Python you can install ezdxf from a terminal:
`pip install ezdxf`

Place dxfdedup in your user site-packages folder.
You will need to create this folder.
Python will give you the path if you input the following in a terminal:
`python3 -m site --user-site`

It will be something like:

Linux:
~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Mac:
~/Library/Python/3.6/lib/python/site-packages

Windows:
%APPDATA%/Python/Python36/site-packages

Make the folder in a terminal:
`mkdir -p the_path`

Example of use:
```
import dxfdedup

# define the entity types that will be processed (optional)

entities = ['line', 'circle', 'lwpolyline', 'arc']

# create a Deduplicator object and optionally pass the entities list

d = dxfdedup.Deduplicator(entities)

# remove dupicates from a single file

d.dedup('/home/user_name/dxf_files/arbitrary.dxf')

# remove dupicates from all files in a directory

d.dedup_d('/home/user_name/dxf_files')

```

If you exclude the entities list, then it will remove duplicates for all currently supported entities.

- line
- circle
- lwpolyline
- arc