How do I find a text type?

[SRobbins]

I have a text type that is not being purged out so it must be in use some
place in the project, how do I find it?

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Scott Robbins
TRO/The Ritchie Organization

[Anonymous]

Add some text using the style you don't want anymore. Select it and Right Click, choose Select All Instances. Then change the type to the one you want it to be.

Now you'll be able to purge the other style.

[SRobbins]

Hey Steve,

Select all instances will not work. I'm guessing that its because the index
was made in a Legends View. Thanks though.


wrote in message news:5224590@discussion.autodesk.com...
Add some text using the style you don't want anymore. Select it and Right
Click, choose Select All Instances. Then change the type to the one you
want it to be.

Now you'll be able to purge the other style.

[Anonymous]

Scott,

Check to make sure that the font is not part an imported family or other.
Something similar to the block instance in autocad. Where a block contained
the text style. How about dimensions?

Bob

wrote in message news:5225559@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hey Steve,

Select all instances will not work. I'm guessing that its because the index
was made in a Legends View. Thanks though.


wrote in message news:5224590@discussion.autodesk.com...
Add some text using the style you don't want anymore. Select it and Right
Click, choose Select All Instances. Then change the type to the one you
want it to be.

Now you'll be able to purge the other style.

[Anonymous]

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that behavior with legends before. It should work honestly. I'll let support know. If the text style is in legends try swapping them all out in the legend views, a little tedious.

[Anonymous]

Dimensions do not use text styles, you assign a font so they shouldn't affect it. It shouldn't be possible that a family is "locking" it in because a family uses a label style not a text style and text within a family does not appear in the project environment. Fwiw, I've not had a family prevent the removal of text styles in the past.

[Anonymous]

How about a sheet that is attached which does use text


wrote in message news:5227127@discussion.autodesk.com...
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that behavior with legends before. It should
work honestly. I'll let support know. If the text style is in legends try
swapping them all out in the legend views, a little tedious.

[Anonymous]

No because Revit does not add the text style used in the titleblock to the project. It doesn't get displayed as an eligible text style to place nor does it appear in the list of styles when you use Purge Unused.

[asWAPL9]

@asWAPL9 - this post has been edited due to Community Rules & Etiquette violation.

i cannot believe that it is 2023 and this problem is still not solved. Autodesk. it has been 17 years. what the actual heck?

[billingsjBPZZD]

I ran across the same issue. My work around was to:

I pcked a text type that I made and knew I could purge and could "Select All Instances" for (from trial and error). Then I took a screen shot the text type's parameter values.

Next I edited the text type I could not purge to have the same parameters values as the one I took a screenshot of. 

Then I "Selected All Instances" for the text type I originally picked and screenshot. I changed them all to be the text type I could not purge. I then purged the original text type.

Finally I renamed the unpurgeable text type to the name of the original text type I just purged.  

I don't see that unwanted text type name in my properties list anymore and everything is what it was before. Just somewhere in the project that I couldn't see or find anyways has some text that changed parameter values.

[RSomppi1]

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@asWAPL9 wrote:

i cannot believe that it is 2023 and this problem is still not solved. Autodesk. it has been 17 years.

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It's been solved many times by users managing their content properly. 

[hmunsell]

Dimensions don't use Text Styles, but Schedules do. Check the Schedules in your model and any View Templates for schedules.

[billingsjBPZZD]

Nice! One of the two Text Styles I could not find using "Select All Instances" was indeed in a Schedule Template. There is still one more I cannot find to purge. I've looked at every View, Legend, Schedule, Schedule Template and Sheet. Any other ideas? Thanks

[billingsjBPZZD]

@hmunsell 

I figured out my problem.  At some point while developing my Project Template I renamed the Text Type "Schedule Default" to something else.  That something else happens to be the Text Type I can't Purge. I tried and I can't change the Text Type Revit defaults to when you first start a schedule. Thanks for leading me in the right direction.