How can I get rid of extra text style?

[SteveChestnut]

Hello,

I have a block named VALVE_GATE.DWG (attached).
This block consists of 4 lines and there should be nothing else.
There is no text in the block drawing (at least none I can find).
In the block drawing there is text style Standard which should be there.
Text style Standard is always there and can't be purged.
I understand this.

But there is also text style SIMPLEX.
I would like to purge text style SIMPLEX from the drawing but cannot.
I am unable to figure out where this text style is used.
If anyone out there has a minute to look at the attached VALVE_GATE.DWG
and offer insite as to how to remove text style SIMPLEX I'd appreciate it.

Thank you,
Steve

[jaberwok]

SIMPLEX is the current text style.
Your current dimstyle calls the SIMPLEX text style.
Perhaps your table style also calls the same text style?

[SteveChestnut]

You brought up a good point. I took another look at the block.
My current text style is Standard.
My dim style was using text style SIMPLEX so I changed it use Standard.
I did the same thing for my mleader style Standard and my table style Standard.
All default text, dim, leader and table styles all use text style Standard for their text.
I still cannot purge text style SIMPLEX.
If anybody has another suggestion I'd welcome it.
I've reattached VALVE_GATE.DWG with all styles set to Standard if anyone wants to see.

Thanks,
Steve

[tedg]

You brought up a good point. I took another look at the block.
My current text style is Standard.
My dim style was using text style SIMPLEX so I changed it use Standard.
I did the same thing for my mleader style Standard and my table style Standard.
All default text, dim, leader and table styles all use text style Standard for their text.
I still cannot purge text style SIMPLEX.
If anybody has another suggestion I'd welcome it.
I've reattached VALVE_GATE.DWG with all styles set to Standard if anyone wants to see.

Thanks,
Steve

Not really sure what the heck, I tried everything you tried.
I even tried renaming the style "Standard" to something else, and then renaming the style "Simplex" to "Standard", but then I couldn't delete the other one (formerly Standard), it's like they're tied together. Also, I noticed that the "Standard" style was annotative and "Simplex" wasn't.

I tried W-Blocking it out (by selecting the 4 lines) but that didn't help. The only way I was able to get rid of the "Simplex" style was to copy clip the 4 lines, open a brand new (generic) dwg and paste to original coodinates.

The style SIMPLEX was gone!!

[jaberwok]

The only way I was able to get rid of the "Simplex" style was to copy clip the 4 lines, open a brand new (generic) dwg and paste to original coodinates.

The style SIMPLEX was gone!!

I tried that ten times but SIMPLEX is still there in nine cases.
Once, it worked.

[Tom Beauford]

I saved it as DXF, opened it with an ASCII editor and removed:

STYLE
  5
22
330
21
100
AcDbSymbolTableRecord
100
AcDbTextStyleTableRecord
  2
SIMPLEX
 70
     0
 40
0.0
 41
1.0
 50
0.0
 71
     0
 42
0.125
  3
SIMPLEX.shx
  4
  0

It worked although I can't figure out why I couldn't delete it in the drawing since there wasn't any other reference.

I've got 'Merge Text Styles' with a dialog box that works even in more complex situations:
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...057#post214057
With 'txtmrg.dvb' in my support path I use the macro

^P(COMMAND "-vbarun" "txtmrg.dvb!RuntimeEvents.stylemerge")

to fire it up. One of my favorite downloads.