Purge dialog box

The Purge dialog box allows you to select which types of items and which items will be removed from the drawing.

  1. Filter item names
  2. Types

Filter item names

Apply a filter to the item names in the drawing.

Types

You can toggle on/off the different types of items that will be removed.

Blocks
Removes unused block definitions from the current drawing.
Detail view styles
Removes unused detail view styles.
Dimension styles
Removes unused dimension styles from the current drawing.
Groups
Removes unused named groups from the current drawing.
Layers
Removes unused layers from the current drawing.
Linetypes
Removes unused linetypes from the current drawing.
Materials
Removes unused materials from the current drawing.
Mline styles
Removes unused multiline styles from the current drawing.
Multileader styles
Removes unused multileader styles from the current drawing.
Plot styles
Removes unused plot styles from the current drawing.
Regapps

Removes unused regapp keys from the current drawing.

Note: Regapp (registered application) keys are used to attach additional information to entities in drawings by third-party applications.
Section view styles
Removes unused section view styles from the current drawing.
Shapes
Removes unused shapes loaded into the drawing with the LOAD command.
Table styles
Removes unused table styles from the current drawing.
Text styles
Removes unused text styles from the current drawing.
Visual styles

Removes unused user-defined visual styles from the current drawing.

Note: Only user-defined visual styles can be purged. Hard-coded visual styles cannot be purged.
Zero-length geometry
Removes geometry without length.
Empty text entities
Removes empty text entities from the current drawing.
Orphaned data
Performs a drawing scan and removes unused DGN linestyles data.