PURGE command
Removes unused named entities from drawings.
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Alias: PU
Description
Opens the Purge dialog box to select unused named entities to remove from the drawing.
- Filter item names
- Purge nested items
- Types
Filter item names
Apply a filter to the item names in the drawing.
Purge nested items
When enabled, it purges all nested items. Therefore, it is not needed anymore to run PURGE multiple times.
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
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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
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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.