ittayd Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Hi I received a file (exported from datacad) with apx. ~1000 dimension styles. I selected all dimensions and changed their style to a new style. Now I want to delete the old styles, but Autocad says they are used. I tried purging, but it doesn't help. Any tips for a newbie would be appreciated Regards, Ittay Quote
Dadgad Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) If you have LEADERS in your drawing you need to check their DIMSTYLE too. A leader is a DIMENSION line. If you have any leaders which are using the DIMSTYLE of all those dimensions which you changed then they will need to be changed too. I like to use my QUICK PROPERTIES, which makes this really easy. Select everything in the drawing, then access the drop down filter menu in the QUICK PROPERTIES palette and select LEADERS, check the DIMSTLE box, and make sure that it doesn't say VARIES or the name of the DIMSTYLE which you hope to purge, make them a DIMSTYLE which you intend to keep in the drawing. I suspect that will take care of those unwanted DIMSTYLES. Once you have done that, go ahead and PURGE your drawing again. Better yet, use the -PURGE command (that is the more powerful commandline version of the PURGE command), and you must include the leading HYPHEN to make it work. Command: -PURGE Enter type of unused objects to purge [blocks/Dimstyles/Groups/LAyers/LTypes/MAterials/MUltileaderstyles/Plotstyles/SH apes/textSTyles/Mlinestyles/Tablestyles/Visualstyles/Regapps/Zero-length geometry/Empty text objects/All]: r Enter name(s) to purge : Verify each name to be purged? [Yes/No] : n Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIM_EXT1_LINETYPE". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIM_EXT2_LINETYPE". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIM_LINETYPE". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIMARC_LENGTH_SYMBOL". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIMEXT_ENABLED". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIMEXT_LENGTH". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIMJOGGED_JOGANGLE_SYMBOL". Deleting registered application "ACAD_DSTYLE_DIMTEXT_FILL". 8 registered applications deleted. Command: -PURGE Enter type of unused objects to purge [blocks/Dimstyles/Groups/LAyers/LTypes/MAterials/MUltileaderstyles/Plotstyles/SH apes/textSTyles/Mlinestyles/Tablestyles/Visualstyles/Regapps/Zero-length geometry/Empty text objects/All]: a Enter name(s) to purge : Verify each name to be purged? [Yes/No] : n Deleting block "*D10". Deleting block "*D11". 2 blocks deleted. No unreferenced layers found. No unreferenced linetypes found. No unreferenced text styles found. No unreferenced shape files found. No unreferenced dimension styles found. No unreferenced mlinestyles found. Deleting plotstyle "0.18". 1 plotstyle deleted. No unreferenced table styles found. No unreferenced materials found. No unreferenced visual styles found. No unreferenced multileader styles found. No unreferenced groups found. Command: _qsave Command: AUDIT Fix any errors detected? [Yes/No] : y Auditing Header Auditing Tables Auditing Entities Pass 1 AcDbSortentsTable(DB8) Error for Entry (35873) eInvalidInput was Removed. Pass 1 800 objects auditedAcDbSolid(379F9) XData Handle Unknown Null Pass 1 2600 objects audited Auditing Entities Pass 2 Pass 2 2600 objects audited Auditing Blocks 48 Blocks audited Total errors found 9 fixed 9 Erased 0 objects Command: PURGE Command: _qsave Edited July 23, 2012 by Dadgad Quote
ittayd Posted July 23, 2012 Author Posted July 23, 2012 It looks like I don't have an leaders in the drawing (no 'leaders' in the drop down) Quote
Dadgad Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Then run the -PURGE command as shown in my last post. Quote
ittayd Posted July 23, 2012 Author Posted July 23, 2012 Did not work. I followed the commands as you used several times. Quote
Dadgad Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 Are you at liberty to post the drawing, or a small part of the drawing, stripped of proprietary information, which would make it much easier for us to help you figure out? Quote
manny_pacquiao Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 maybe the leader is inside a block.. try to chek all the block objects and see if theres a dimension/leader inside it.. once you are inside block editor> qselect>leader>all then delete.. after that you can purge in order to delete unwanted dimstyle/s Quote
Dadgad Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 maybe the leader is inside a block.. try to chek all the block objects and see if theres a dimension/leader inside it.. once you are inside block editor> qselect>leader>all then delete.. after that you can purge in order to delete unwanted dimstyle/s Welcome to the forum. Should you go that way, once selected you could change their DIMSTYLE in Properties, inside the block editor. Quote
manny_pacquiao Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 yup thats right dadgad.. sometimes it gets tricky and anoying purging some unwanted layers/dims.. you just have to dig in further.. thank you for the warm welcome Quote
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