DWG-PURGE

DWG-PURGE, will purge the current drawing of its unused AutoCAD items as well as DGN-related linetypes. To purge the current drawing enter DWG-PURGE at the command line. Once the purge is finished, AutoCAD Text Window will pop up with the result as show below.

TIP

If DWG-PURGE is taking long time to purge the drawing, then use DWG-PURGE-BATCH command.

While using DWG-PURGE, if the current drawing has any xref attached that has unused DGN data a dialog box will be displayed with the list of DGN data affected Xref's. You will have the option to either Purge the Xref or not.

DWG-PURGE-BATCH

This command can be used to purge multiple drawings. This command will open the drawing files in the background

How to know the existence of DGN linetypes/Textstyles ?

Follow below steps to find the existence of DGN linetypes in your drawing.

• Takes more time than usual to copy the objects to clipboard.
• In the Linetype Mangaer dialog box there are number of unknown Linetypes which are not using.
• Existence of unknown Textstyles in the Text style list.
• Drawing file size is too heavy even the file contains less data.

Batch Dialog Box

Batch Settings