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Navigate the Purge dialog and describe purgeable items
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
2 min.
Transcript
00:04
In the course of its life.
00:05
A drawing file can pick up a lot of unused data
00:08
depending on what it is.
00:10
This can not only bloat your drawing size but it can
00:12
affect its performance or even lead to it becoming corrupted.
00:16
Autocad provides a way to remove this excess unused data.
00:19
It's called the purge command.
00:21
You can find it in the manage tab of the ribbon and within the clean up panel,
00:25
click on it to open the purge dialogue or if you
00:28
prefer just enter its alias pu on the command line,
00:32
let's quickly go through it together.
00:34
But of course, we'll dig deeper into this video
00:37
at the top. You have two buttons,
00:39
you can view either purged
00:40
items or non pur
00:42
items.
00:42
Let's start with the pur
00:44
items. View
00:45
on the left is a tree view of all of the named object categories. In a drawing file.
00:49
On the right side,
00:51
there's a preview area for an individually selected item
00:53
that has a graphical preview such as a block
00:56
and below it, some additional options.
00:58
Finally at the bottom, you'll find your action buttons
01:01
right now though we're focusing on pur
01:04
items.
01:04
First of all what defines a pur
01:07
item.
01:07
Well, it has to be a named item, things like blocks, layers and styles.
01:12
Second and most important,
01:13
it cannot be referenced by any object in the drawing.
01:16
So
01:17
if there's nothing on a layer,
01:18
that layer is considered to be pur
01:21
the same goes for any of the other named object types.
01:24
When you see an expansion icon next to a category,
01:27
you'll know it has items that can be purged.
Video transcript
00:04
In the course of its life.
00:05
A drawing file can pick up a lot of unused data
00:08
depending on what it is.
00:10
This can not only bloat your drawing size but it can
00:12
affect its performance or even lead to it becoming corrupted.
00:16
Autocad provides a way to remove this excess unused data.
00:19
It's called the purge command.
00:21
You can find it in the manage tab of the ribbon and within the clean up panel,
00:25
click on it to open the purge dialogue or if you
00:28
prefer just enter its alias pu on the command line,
00:32
let's quickly go through it together.
00:34
But of course, we'll dig deeper into this video
00:37
at the top. You have two buttons,
00:39
you can view either purged
00:40
items or non pur
00:42
items.
00:42
Let's start with the pur
00:44
items. View
00:45
on the left is a tree view of all of the named object categories. In a drawing file.
00:49
On the right side,
00:51
there's a preview area for an individually selected item
00:53
that has a graphical preview such as a block
00:56
and below it, some additional options.
00:58
Finally at the bottom, you'll find your action buttons
01:01
right now though we're focusing on pur
01:04
items.
01:04
First of all what defines a pur
01:07
item.
01:07
Well, it has to be a named item, things like blocks, layers and styles.
01:12
Second and most important,
01:13
it cannot be referenced by any object in the drawing.
01:16
So
01:17
if there's nothing on a layer,
01:18
that layer is considered to be pur
01:21
the same goes for any of the other named object types.
01:24
When you see an expansion icon next to a category,
01:27
you'll know it has items that can be purged.
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