Undeletable Layers

[DANIEL]

Every now and then I come across this in someone elses drawing, it is not one of the listed layers that can't be deleted. Please help me find a way to get this kind of garbage out of my drawings.

 

[BlackBox]

The drawing probably has some Block, Dim style, or Table style (other?) that references the layer... I don't beleive you'll be able to purge the layer without fixing that first.

[designerstuart]

you need to delete everything off the layer before it will purge, and layers nested in blocks are normally the difficulty with doing this / finding them.

 

command LAYWALK can help.

[ReMark]

Don't care what is on the layer or what is referenced to it? Use the Layer Delete command found under the Format menu in the section called Layer Tools.

[designerstuart]

Layer Delete

is this the 'hard delete' they speak of in hushed tones?

[qball]

yep, deletes the objects on that layer from what I understand.

[DANIEL]

Layer Delete worked great, thanks guys.

[designerstuart]

just don't get carried away with it - i bet it's easy to delete something you wanted.

(there's likely a reason it's not a standard command)

[DANIEL]

trust me, I'm not sharing that command with my underlings lol

[ReMark]

yep, deletes the objects on that layer from what I understand.

It deletes the layer as well as anything that is on it. A double-whammy.

[qball]

I just tried a few things.

If you have Layer A and Layer B, you have A and B in a Block and the Block is on B, and you Delete Layer A, it will delete the parts of the block that have Layer A. But if the Block is on Layer A, it deletes the whole block.