Delete Multiple images

[honewell]

Is it possible to delete more than one image at a time? If i open Manage Images there is no way to select multiple images to delete all of them.

i work in a structural engineering firm and we receive revit files that are upwards of 600Mb and very difficult to work with. I've found that if i delete all of the linked images and linked revit files the file becomes more managable. However, in order to delete all of the images i must manually delete one at a time. 

Is there a better way to delete all of the linked images in a revit file?

[barthbradley]

You cannot

[cbcarch]

take a look here:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/remove-imported-jpg-and-bmp-images.html

[honewell]

thanks for the reply. I don't know enough about code to understand the blog but I appreciate the work around.

although the correct answer to my original question is 'Revit does not have this capability' I will not mark that answer as a solution. correct answers are not necessarily solutions, and revit should understand this is an ongoing problem.

[barthbradley]

@honewell: A limitation is not a "problem". A workaround to a limitation is a solution, more often than not.  I don't behoove you for not considering a particular workaround viable or helpful, but you are not going to send a message to Autodesk by not doing so. Post something on Ideas Site and see if it gets "liked".   Enough "likes" and maybe Autodesk will sit up and take notice.  

[David]

As this is the first thread google pulls up, I figured i'd post the solution to this issue as follows:

1) Go To the "Manage Tab"

2) Select "Purge Unused"

3) Select "Check None"

4) Navigate the tree to the following location: Families>Raster Images>Raster Image - Then select the images you want to take out using Shift+Click and/or CTRL+Click then select "OK" when you have the ones you need selected.

Sometimes images will not appear in this list, my guess is they are used on sheets *edit* or views *edit* somewhere.  But this seems to be the best solution to use.

[HVAC-Novice]

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Is there a better way to delete all of the linked images in a revit file?

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Just to clarify, are those files LINKED or IMPORTED?  Most files (dwg, Rvt) etc.) would normally be better linked and that way they don't use much space and don't clutter up your project with all their line types, fonts etc. I also don't know if a linked image woudl actually come with your linked Revit file.

So if the problem is that the person you get your rvt files from is importing instead of linking, the solution should be for that person to use links. 

[syman2000]

Is this a consultant file? If it is, you can use e-transmit and select purged unused and get rid of all views and sheet except for certain view. I do this all the time and it cuts down on time to manually delete unwanted items.

[Mohamed-Nassar]

yes you will delete them manually this is the way 

[jespinal]

Thanks a lot, David! This saved me a significant amount of time.