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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

Tip#: 4278
Author: Chris Wade
Rename File To: UPU.lsp
Published on: 24-Mar-2014
Downloads: 1172
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

CAD detailer Steve Roberts shares some tips for keeping your AutoCAD files clean and neat.

"I like to clean up each and every AutoCAD drawing to reduce file s...  Read more

Tip#: 4173
Author: Steve Roberts
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 29-Jul-2013
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Frequent tipster Danny Korem shares some tips about prepping AutoCAD files for storage on the cloud — or anywhere, really.

"Lately, I've been busy preparin...  Read more

Tip#: 3925
Author: Danny Korem
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 02-Jul-2012
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Designer Robert L. Zipprich sent us a tip to ensure the Purge command actually purges your unwanted AutoCAD objects.

"There appear to be some things the Purge comm...  Read more

Tip#: 3641
Author: Robert Zipprich
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 15-May-2011
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3.5
  Rated by 2 users

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

Tip#: 3369
Author: Chris Wade
Rename File To: eaec.lsp
Published on: 15-Mar-2010
Downloads: 894
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

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

Tip#: 3368
Author: Chris Wade
Rename File To: ArchiClean.lsp
Published on: 15-Mar-2010
Downloads: 1150
Rating:
1
  Rated by 1 users

One of our Tip Patrollers, Mitch Hirschklau, shares a tip on purge-resistant items in AutoCAD.

"On the subject of purging unwanted and seemingly unpurgeable layers (and ...  Read more

Tip#: 3336
Author: Mitch Hirschklau
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 07-Feb-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
3.5
  Rated by 2 users

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

Tip#: 3092
Author: Jon Jonas
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 11-Jan-2009
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

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

Tip#: 3046
Author: Michael Kolomiyets
Rename File To: pas.lsp
Published on: 01-Dec-2008
Downloads: 1304
Rating:
2
  Rated by 2 users

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

Tip#: 2159
Author: Mark Newman
Rename File To: Tip2159: BigPurge.lsp
Published on: 01-Oct-2006
Downloads: 524
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users