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Cad/IT Manager Chris Wade sends us a short LISP routine he uses to purge AutoCAD drawings on a regular basis. This is actually a subset of a more detailed routine Chris submitted f... Read more
CAD Manager Chris Wade provided this routine to strip out AEC objects — which are created by vertical applications such as Land Desktop — from drawings. Load the LISP f... Read more
CAD Manager Chris Wade submitted a routine to clean up drawings. If you have drawings of unknown origin, you can run this routine to help eliminate potential problems. The routine ... Read more
Jonathan Jonas sent us this tip about fully purging a file. Purge All doesn't purge all! It came to my attention this morning after dealing with screen glitches in AutoCAD 2008 and trying to figure... Read more
This advanced purge-audit-save utility is for cleaning up drawings before saving. To use, load the PAS.LSP file, then type PAS. The rest is automatic. First, the Purge command cleans up unreference... Read more
Directory and Bigpurge (Tips #2158 and #2159) come from CAD manager Mark Newman, who has quite a job on his hands wrangling variably skilled CAD users onto the same page. CAD standards and practice... Read more