[SSV8i] PDF Files Very Large

Hi, Any help you be great - i have been working on this for a few days.

I have generated construction drawings from a substation model by creating a drawing (not sheet) view in the model then placed that view as a reference on a construction drawing. The first issues i had was the drawing that was reference was not sowing up in the print, after a bunch of clicking I found that if i set the Nested Attachments to copy attachments the drawing showed up in the PDF. Now that i can see the model I tried printing - it takes minutes to print and generates >17mB file for one drawing (A01) raster is turned off as well as 3D plotting . I could reduce the resolution but i would prefer not to. When I look at the construction drawing from the side (3D orientation) I see the complete model with the drawing border and any elements on that drawing as a line thought the model. I suspect the PDF driver is capturing all this information. Am i doing something incorrect in setting up the construction drawing or the Bentley PDF driver. We using a drawing view instead of a sheet view for the reference so we could configure the drawing. We could not get hidden line to display properly when the reference was a sheet view. The model is 36mB. I have tried with a Bluebeam driver and got the same result.

Thanks for any help!