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how to delete a proxy entity

haiduken_ae_mi — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:32:08 GMT

have on in a drawing that I want to edit (a leader) and there is nothing that I am doing that is working. I tried exploding, purging and I cant remember what else and nothing seems to work... any ideas?

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

TRLitsey — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:59:41 GMT

Hi there,

Can you post up a drawing so we can take a look at it?

What version of ACE and OS are you using?

Will take a look tomorrow if this is still post. It is the end of my day.

Thank you

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

jseefdrumr — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:05:18 GMT

I don't know if it works on proxy objects, but SuperPurge will forcibly remove things from a drawing that the normal PURGE command won't. A quick internet search will get you there.

Caution: be very aware of what you are doing with this command. It CAN and WILL break a drawing if you aren't careful.

Hope this helps,
Jim

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

haiduken_ae_mi — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:27:50 GMT

This is the file i am having trouble with. The proxy entity seems to be the welding call out.

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

jseefdrumr — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:38:48 GMT

Looks like you'll need to get an object enabler for this. I tried SuperPurge on it and it didn't work. Here's a link to the Autodesk Knowledgebase article on Object Enablers:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/123112/files/autocad-object-enablers-html.html

Hope this helps,

Jim

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

TRLitsey — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:12:23 GMT

Hi there,

Proxy Object is a new one to me. Reading in the Help area you may or may not be able to do anything with it unless you have to software that created the object. You might find an Enabler as was suggested but that could take a little of your time. For what this drawing is, not really a whole lot going on here, you might consider just creating a new drawing with the settings you want.

This one is kind of a bummer, sorry about that

Good luck

Please mark as a solution if this works for you, kudos are always welcome - thank you

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

haiduken_ae_mi — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:15:26 GMT

thanks a lot for your help

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

haiduken_ae_mi — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:15:50 GMT

thank you, i appreciate the help

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

TRLitsey — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:26:27 GMT

Hi again,

Real quick down and dirt. I copied everything but Proxy and pasted it into a new acad template drawing. Will this work for you?

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

haiduken_ae_mi — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:26:24 GMT

thanks that's what i ended up doing.

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:32:12 GMT

I ran into the exact same issue. I found a workaround that works very well.

select all proxy objects and use the explode command (I selected one proxy object, right clicked, and chose the select similar option)
select all objects in the drawing and copy to clipboard with base point (0,0) (I used the command select, then typed all, right clicked and under the clipboard option I chose copy with base point)
open a blank drawing
paste to the same base point. (ctrl v and then enter (0,0))
save the new drawing
add xrefs from previous drawing or change xref links that were linked to the old drawing

Proxy objects cannot be deleted or COPIED, therefore, the new drawing you just created will not have the proxy objects. Hope this helped

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:04:11 GMT

I found a work around for removing Proxy's

go and save your drawing as a AutoCAD R12/LT2 DXF (*.dxf) and after that close the drawing then open it back up and all the Proxy's are gone then you can save your drawing as an ACAD drawing again

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:09:09 GMT

Select entity right click - isolate - hide object. i think this will help.

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:43:37 GMT

I know of 2 options:

Easy option is use the proxyshow command, this will turn them off

Put them on a different layer and turn the layer off

have not found a way to remove them

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

dominik.bujan — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:27:01 GMT

I found a work around for removing Proxy's

go and save your drawing as a AutoCAD R12/LT2 DXF (*.dxf) and after that close the drawing then open it back up and all the Proxy's are gone then you can save your drawing as an ACAD drawing again

Worked for me. Thanks!

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

controlsgirl — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:21:30 GMT

What if you can't see the object? proxy(no graphics)..

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

rhesusminus — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:43:06 GMT

Try the EXPORTTOAUTOCAD command...

Re: how to delete a proxy entity

controlsgirl — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:18:04 GMT

I'll give it a try the next time I'm bombarded with them. I have whole sets of drawings that have something on each page. I'm assuming its something for a title block.