Delete a style in use

[IanMcClain]

Is there a nuclear option for deleting a style that is not in use?

Backgound: I have a drawing that is painfully slow to work in, saves are particulary excruciating. After removing some MOOs (Multiply owned objects), wblocking into a new dwg and dozens of audit's, purges and style purges there still exists a general line label style that was one fo the MOOs. The objects that used the style appear to be gone from the drawing, however the "Replace with..." option indicates the style is still has 9 referneces. Selecting another style to replace the offender does nothing at this point; there are still 9 refernces (initially there were 200+). I've scoured the settings for other refernces, but found none.

[jmayo-EE]

Did you try the purgestyles comand? Note a bit of a bug will require users to slide the scroll bar to see the list populate.

[jmayo-EE]

thx to RK for the bug notice http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/purge-styles/td-p/4810603

[IanMcClain]

I have tried that, to no avail. The drawing seems to think their are still references to this style, so it's not showing up in the purge style list.

[rkmcswain]

If it's not available for purge, then it's probably in use.

Have you tried right-click, then "Find References"?

[rkmcswain]

jmayo wrote:
thx to RK for the bug notice http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/purge-styles/td-p/4810603

I had forgotten all about that. That was a good one...

[IanMcClain]

I have: it returns "Gneral Segemet Label\". Doulble clicking this usually takes me right to the refence, but not in this case. I've scoured the settings tree and come up with nothing.

[jmayo-EE]

If you open the Add Labels dialog box is this label style listed as being current for any of the line/cuver options (single seg, mult seg, etc)? If so change the current style to something else.

[IanMcClain]

Unfortunately, that is not the case.

[AllenJessup]

Does the style persist if you WBlock out the drawing and insert it in to a new drawing?

Allen

[IanMcClain]

It does, and that is using the object option (as opposed to entire drawing).