FIFTHTEXAS Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 i have just been given some architects drawings that have been done in microstation and converted to autocad. trying to make xrefs from them has become a nightmare. 3063 layers in the drawing. thousands of blocks, i have spent hours trying to delete layers, purge, overkill rtc i finally been able to get a drawing that will work ok, has any ideas how i can speed up this process in the beginning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I've run into this before. ASMI helped me - he made a lisp to clean up these drawings. http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?16337-Move-objects-to-new-layers-using-color-ltype-line-weight Here's another lisp I've used to clean drawings. CLEANDWG_Permitting_v1.2.lsp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 (edited) If you know anyone running 2015, it will clean out the DGN linetypes and other orphaned data automagically upon opening a drawing. You could download the 2016 version of TrueView (which is free from Autodesk), I am not sure, but that may do it too, when you open the problematic files. Or you could download the 30 day trial of 2016 from Autodesk, and use that. Edited August 6, 2015 by Dadgad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 2015 even LT has the purge orphaned as an option. Used it yesterday removed say 50 linetypes. Downloaded from Autodesk the dgn hotfix for 2013 but it just gave errors on loading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBox Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 I believe that 2016 is the first release with the added DGN linetype killer built in, might be wrong, but that is my understanding. FWIW - http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=45030.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Comment 2 re DGN Hotfix 2013 2014 downloaded again and it started running then crashed again. Time to call in that favour again and use LT 2015 to remove the legacy DGN linetypes. The dwg which I did not start has continuous errors and I think its linked to the DGN linetypes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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