Purge Empty Objects

I love all the easy-but-cool features that found their way into AutoCAD LT 2010. Like editing non-associative hatch objects.

Another feature that I can just tell you about (instead of having to "teach" it) is the ability to purge zero-length geometry and empty text objects. It's a new box at the bottom of the Purge dialog.

Zero-length geometry can happen when you draw a line and put two points on top of each other, or when you draw a rectangle and put the first and second corner at the same point -- in other words, it's usually an accident. Same thing with empty text: maybe you erased the contents of a text object instead of deleting the object, or you typed a space and saved the object instead of undoing it.

These objects can be hard to find, because they're either tiny points or completely invisible. There are ways to track them down (Quick Select is one), but it's a lot easier to just check the box and make them all go away.

Comments

[mg]

Curiosity question; What are the needed steps to accomplish this using "Quick Select"?
mg

[Kate Morrical]

Ha -- I left the door open for that one. :-) I'll post a follow-up tomorrow.

[Kathy Farrey]

Does that work on empty blocks. I ran into this a few years back, when I started a new job and the guy before me had inserted multiple copies of a block that had nothing in it. It was the same block in multiple drawings. I eventually created a script to delete all blocks with that name.