Purge Empty Objects (the pre-2010 version)

So after yesterday's post on purging zero-length geometry and empty text objects, I was rightly taken to task for hinting that Quick Select can be used to accomplish the same thing and then not telling you how.

Mea culpa -- here you go.

In this drawing, I have a line, a rectangle, a text object, and an mtext object.

What's that? You only see a circle? Well, that's because the other objects are zero-length or empty. Let me press Ctrl+A now...

Ah, THERE they are. Let's fix that.

I'll launch Quick Select (from the Tools menu, Properties palette, or by typing QSELECT), set the object type to Line, the property to Length, and the value to 0.

Got it!

Now I can press Delete and get rid of it. Then I can repeat the process for the polyline, text, and mtext objects, except that the property for the text objects is Contents and the value is a space.

So that's how you'd get rid of empty objects prior to AutoCAD LT 2010 -- you can see why the new Purge option would be a real timesaver!

Comments

[mg]

Thank-you :-)
mg