hi everybody,
i have a large drawing with a lot of layers with objects i have deleted, but i cant delete the layers even though they are empty. i run 2002LT. any help is appreciated.
shawn.
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hi everybody,
i have a large drawing with a lot of layers with objects i have deleted, but i cant delete the layers even though they are empty. i run 2002LT. any help is appreciated.
shawn.
Do you have express tool installed? Are you sure the layers are empty? No locked, frozen, or off layers? Have you tried a purgeall lisp routine?
Hi Shawn
Please note I've *moved* this Topic (Thread) from the AutoCAD General Forum to this one as I believe it would be better served here.
Thanks, Mike
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Last edited by Mike.Perry; 2005-02-01 at 09:26 AM. Reason: Correct bad formatting.
umm...
not sure of express tools,
the layers appear to be empty and they are not frozen,locked or off.
and i am unfamiliar with the purge command, what is it? will it delete empty layers only?
shawn.
Hi
Check out the following Technical Documents on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -
ID: TS44431 - Remove unused entities from drawing database
ID: TS53057 - PURGE command does not purge objects from drawing
ID: TS46610 - Cannot purge some blocks from drawing
ID: TS17407 - Remove unreferenced objects
If you still have problems Purging/Removing Layers from the drawing file please post it here so we can take a look.
Have a good one, Mike
If you don't see express listed at the top of you AutoCAD (with file, edit, view, atc.) you don't have any express tools. The purge command will remove or "unload" any unassociated entities in the drawing file. QSAVE your drawing and then type "PURGE" in the command line. This will bring up a dialog with a tree view showing items you can purge, or items that you cannot purge (depends on which if the top two options you have selected. At the bottom you will see a couple buttons stating purge, purge all, cancel, and help. You might want to make sure the purge nested items is on but I would try to purge the drawing without that option first to see if it works. Oh, and if you chack the "confirm each item to be purged" box, it will ask you if you are sure for everything that is pugeable (is that a word??) which can take a while if there's alot to be purged. Hope this works for you.
Express tools aren't available with LT
The purge command will only delete layers that have nothing on them. You can check the AutoCAD help file for more information on the purge command.
It is also possible that these layers are nested in blocks. If that is the case, the only way to get rid of them is to explode the block and purge.
HiOriginally Posted by jhohman
Express Tools are not available within AutoCAD LT unless you buy some Third Party Software that enables ARX, LISP, VBA etc functions/routines to be run in AutoCAD LT.
Have a good one, Mike
Last edited by Mike.Perry; 2005-02-01 at 09:26 AM. Reason: Correct bad formatting.
OK... THANKS EVERYONE
the purge command did the trick, all the empty layers havent been deleted but it did delete quite a few of them. enough to bring the file size down to 1 Mb from 4 Mb.
yet it still thinks that there are objects in the empty layers?? maybe one of you can explain it to me : )
another question i have is, what are blocks? how come the purge command didnt list any layers to be purged but when i purged blocks it deleted layers?
thanks again for all the help.
shawn.