Purge Unused for All Possible Element Types

[matthew_taylor]

Purge unused doesn't purge everything. Especially when we're talking families.

Improvements:

Purge unused Fill Patterns

Purge unused Line Patterns

Purge unused Line Styles (and by association, this includes CAD import layers)

Purge unused Subcategories

Manually purging these elements out of families is labour intensive and, quite frankly, ridiculous.

The manual deletion process is much more complex in a model...there are many possible dependencies.

These element types should also behave as other family types act: When deleting the element, and that element is used elsewhere in the model, a warning should be shown.

Bonus points for adding a purge unused API as mentioned elsewhere.

Extra bonus points for adding a 'Element.IsDependentOnTheseElements as ICollection(of ElementId)' function.

-Matt

[f_santana]

Would I like a native tool for cleanup of imported elements (pattens, linetypes, "categories") of the RVT file

[Anonymous]

Dynamo can do a lot of this but I agree, it should be native functionality.

[matthew_taylor]

I have 6+ years of full time Revit API development experience. Of course it's possible, I just don't think I (or anybody else) should have to code it.

[SteveChing4507]

It would be VERY handy if there was a facility within Revit for tidying up linetypes.

We import 2D geometry a lot & revit is frankly hopeless at allowing us to tidy up imported vector information efficiently.

[lionel.kai]

Duplicate idea: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/purge-important-elements/idi-p/6439048

[lionel.kai]

Definitely would save me time setting the Linetype to LW:15 Orange and then manually searching all the views (to make sure it's safe to delete). It would also be nice to just be able to "select all" on lines per https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/select-all-for-line-styles/idi-p/6866530

[Anonymous]

Really good idea!!!!!!!!! Go, go, go......

[Thierry.A]

Oh! You have any other things to do? Sorry for the inconvenience. I can't wait for the wonderful new announcements for 2021...
It's humour, it's true there's Dynamo. He's a nice guy, Dynamo!

[Lars_Jeppesen]

As BIM / Revit Manager / Technician,

It's a PITA to go into projects, and tasked with cleaning them up, and having to purge certain items one-by-one, like line patterns, when they have been inadvertently been added to the project via linked DWG files etc...

Surely, this should be an OOTB solution by Autodesk, not having to rely on external mods / Dynamo scripts.....

[curtisridenour]

PLEASE!! why o why is this not a thing. 

[ks2_wmb]

@kimberly_fuhrman-jones 

Requesting merge of two other threads into this one:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/tool-to-clean-up-purge-imported-elements/idc-p/7143839

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/purge-lines-patterns-another-way-than-one-by-one/idi-p/90...

The oldest thread in this set has a less-descriptive title unfortunately; would you be able to keep this thread's title after the merge?

Thank you!

[kimberly_fuhrman-jones]

@ks2_wmb ,

Yes, I can keep this title. Thank you for the suggestions to merge!

-Kimberly