rkirklin Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Do any one knows a command (other than purge) that will allow me to import an inventor drawing into Autocad and clean the layers / drawing? I think it is a macro that runs through your drawing and clean the layers for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tharwat Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 What's the extension of Inventor drawings ? And do you want to purge only layers that don't have any entity lays on or what ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkirklin Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 I take an (.idw) and save copy as dwg. Then I open that file in autocad and I would like the layers to be cleaned out and have my current layers (hidden layer, thread layers, etc.) to be used. I saw this command done before, but I was not able to do more research on which program or command that they used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 You're not referring to the Standards Checker are you? You can use Layer Delete to get rid of stubborn layers that the Purge command fails to eliminate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkirklin Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 I think standards checker will work, but where can I find my .dws file?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Mac Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 I think standards checker will work, but where can I find my .dws file?? You will need to create one, save a 'template drawing' as a .dws file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkirklin Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 Ok after using the standards checker, it is not this command. After doing research, I have to design a macro that is capable of doing (clean layers) by creating a command and developing a macro. So I am back to square one trying to design a macro that is able to clean my ISO DWG layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Clean it how? If purge is not acceptable and layer delete isn't what else do you have in mind? Layer Merge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Mac Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Laytrans? ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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