Unused Dimstyle won't purge

[neaton]

I have dynamic block that has an unused dimstyle (CCP-Dim Style) but when I purge the drawing it says the style is in use. Can someone find it for me so I can get it deleted?

Steps I have taken:

Opened the drawing without opening the block editor and purged it.

Opened the drawing with the block editor and done a QSelect search for any dimensions and the only ones are parametric and dynamic dims.

WBlocked it to a new file.

Nancy

[pendean]

If I CTRL+A a bunch of hidden dimensions appear.

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BTW you have Constraints in use in your file: is that deliberate, or an accident?

[Cadologist · Accepted solution]

It appears that you have a nested block within the dynamic block (Casting DYN.dwg) called StructSteps-tops.dwg,which has a purgable dimstyle CCP-Dim Style contained within it. If you PURGE that item out of the StructStep-tops block it'll should be gone.

[neaton]

Yes, it is a dynamic block and that is how it is constrained to act the way it does. The dimensions you see are the constraint and dynamic dims and they don't use dimstyles.

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@pendean wrote:

If I CTRL+A a bunch of hidden dimensions appear.

BTW you have Constraints in use in your file: is that deliberate, or an accident?

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[neaton]

Thanks! I had purged the steps block and could have sworn I redefined the cleaned up block but when I wblocked it out of the castings file it still had the unused dimstyle.

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@Anonymous wrote:

It appears that you have a nested block within the dynamic block (Casting DYN.dwg) called StructSteps-tops.dwg,which has a purgable dimstyle CCP-Dim Style contained within it. If you PURGE that item out of the StructStep-tops block it'll should be gone.

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[Cadologist]

Hey glad that was a relatively simple solution..... those "unused" entities can be a real hunt to try and track down what is apparently using them. Block definitions seem to be a wonderful hiding place for these things. Have a great day!!

[user181]

I see you figured it out. Seemed to me it was in the constraints. I attached a revised block just in case.