Purging unused styles in an .idw

[Steve Bahr]

Greetings.

I'm trying to clean up my .idw templates by purging unused styes.

There is a particularly pesky style living somewhere in my .idw, and it shows up in my styles list, as shown in the attached pdf, yet that style is not available to purge when I enable Purge Styles from my Format pull down menu.

I've moved all entities in the template to another style. I have had no luck in identifying what entity is linked to the style I am trying to purge. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

[Anonymous]

It's probably some geometry or text in your titleblock or border.

"Cleansing" sketch objects like that is a trial-and-error process. You have
to open up each definition, click on each individual object to check which
layer it's on.


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Andrew Faix
Product Design Lead
Autodesk Inventor

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Greetings.

I'm trying to clean up my .idw templates by purging unused styes.

There is a particularly pesky style living somewhere in my .idw, and it
shows up in my styles list, as shown in the attached pdf, yet that style is
not available to purge when I enable Purge Styles from my Format pull down
menu.

I've moved all entities in the template to another style. I have had no
luck in identifying what entity is linked to the style I am trying to purge.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advan
ce,
Steve

[Steve Bahr]

Thanks, Andrew.

What finally worked was turning the visibility of all the other styles off. The problem style was then exposed for purging from the Format pull down menu.

Kinda weird because no entities were linked to the problem style, so I should have seen it when doing the purge.

Steve

[Anonymous]

So, to clarify, just turning the visibility of all the other layers OFF made
the offending layer purgable?

If that's true, can you send me that file so I can have QA look at it?

Thanks,

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Andrew Faix
Product Design Lead
Autodesk Inventor

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Thanks, Andrew.

What finally worked was turning the visibility of all the other styles off.
The problem style was then exposed for purging from the Format pull down
menu.

Kinda weird because no entities were linked to the problem style, so I
should have seen it when doing the purge.

Steve

[Steve Bahr]

Yes, and yes.

Is a zip file ok? What's your email address?

Steve

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course.

andrew.faix@autodesk.com

Thanks Steve!

wrote in message news:5936015@discussion.autodesk.com...
Yes, and yes.

Is a zip file ok? What's your email address?

Steve