Purging Problems I Really need some suggestions!!!

[CADPOLE]

Hello Brain trust,

 

I hope yu guys are firing on all cylinders today.

 

I am getting some drawings ready to go out to the clint. They only want one style of text in their deliverables.

 

 

I have a some drawings that have a secondary text style. I have tried to purge it out, it won't go. Flat refuses!

 

I tried:

1. SSX, Entity, text and mtext. adding Style, simplex. found 0 doing that
   
2. I tried using the quick select box to find it. 0's
   
3. I tried turning on all and unlocking all layers, then reapeating the previose 2 steps. 0's
   
4. I quick selected all my blocks and manually checked them one at a time. 0's
   

That's my whole bag of tricks for this kind of thing!!!!!!

 

 

Can any one else think of a way to find this stupid text style?

[DANIEL]

have you made sure its not the current textsyle in the dwg?

[CADPOLE]

No. I hadn't thought of that one. But unfortunately it wasn't and it still wont purge.

 

I do seem to be banging my head against a wall to a Christmas kind of beat though. " I'm singing deck the halls. . . ."

[ReMark]

Post the drawing. Someone will figure it out.

[CADPOLE]

Wish I could remark but, they were suppose to lock these drawings in a drawer even when we go to the can.

[CADPOLE]

Iv'e ended up copying all the drawings and creating a new drawing. What a pain but, the bad text styl didn't travel. Near as I can figur it was blank mtext box somewhere.

[ReMark]

As a last resort I was going to suggest downloading the trial version of SuperPurge by Manusoft. Keep it in mind if the problem comes up again.

 

http://www.manusoft.com/software/superpurge.html

[SLW210]

Next time use -PURGE (notice - in front) and purge Empty text objects.

[Jack_O'neill]

You can also check for empty text boxes turning QTEXT on. It will display boxes instead of text and you can see if there are any stray ones lying around.

[Cadologist]

When I clean up drawings, it's very common that the text style that you can't purge is embedded in a block in that drawing. Even if the block doesn't actually have 'text' it in, it might have been part of the block when it was originally created. I can sympathize, it's a complete PITA to hunt down and find.

[Dadgad]

I used to get really annoyed when trying to purge "phantom" layers, until I started using LAYMRG, which gets them every time. By using the "name" option, you don't need to find the troublesome bits and select them.

[Dadgad]

works great,as long as the problem isn't in one of your blocks.

[CADPOLE]

Thanks guys! You added a few more grenades to my bag of tricks.

 

Happy BEER:30 to all (much like 5:30 only with beer) and to all have a good FRIDAY .

[Organic]

Wish I could remark but, they were suppose to lock these drawings in a drawer even when we go to the can.

 

A bit extreme isn't it?