Can't erase phantom entities

[mrowles401096]

I have a drawing that I've deleted all objects from, yet when I press CTRL+A, the properties box tells me I've selected 3 parcels. I never had a parcel in this drawing to begin with, and while I can use the erase command on these objects, they are not actually deleted from the drawing. I'm having a similar problem with trying to delete a layer that does not contain any objects, yet AutoCAD tells me I cannot delete layers containing objects when I try to delete it.

Any help is greatly appreciated as this is quite frustrating.

[mjfarrell]

You should be able to expand the Site collection in the Prospector panel of the Toolspace
find the 'parcels', Rt-Click and chose SELECT, and then delete them.

Should you find that the parcels STILL remain; it is possible that you should AUDIT the drawing, and repair all errors;

and or abandon it entirely as it may have become corrupt and there is no way to salvage that file.

[mrowles401096]

Thanks for the advice. I do not have any sites in this drawing and the audit command, while finding a few errors, did not do the trick. I suppose the file has been corrupted somehow, but I have no idea how that could have happened. It is a relatively simple road design.

Hopefully I'll be able to figure this out but for now I've simply started a new drawing.

Thanks again.

[mjfarrell]

Thanks for the advice. I do not have any sites in this drawing and the audit command, while finding a few errors, did not do the trick. I suppose the file has been corrupted somehow, but I have no idea how that could have happened. It is a relatively simple road design.

Hopefully I'll be able to figure this out but for now I've simply started a new drawing.

Thanks again.

Your answer points to a probable cause of the phantom parcels.

If this is a raodway design, then you probably made Alignments, in perhaps in the process those alignments were added to a SITE, and when they intersected each other they created parcels that you did not want or need.

Be sure to create these types of alignments with the NONE option for Sites to prevent in the future.