Help Deleting Layers

Hi all,
I need some help deleting a couple of layers. I coped a drawing into mine
and I can't delete 2 layers. I locked and turned off all other layers and
deleted everything left on the page. Then I purged the drawing and the
layers are still there. I tried deleting the layers in the layers
Properties Manager and it wouldn't delete the 2 layers saying that there is
something still on the layers. I cheched to see if something was xref'ed
and nothing. Some help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick

 

You could use SuperPurge to delete them (it'll even allow you to delete
layers that have items on it).

A couple of possibilitys for what's causing the problem:
Have you checked current text style & dimension style to see if they're set
to use the layers?

HTH,


Michael (LS)

 

They could be referenced by one or more blocks, dimensions or hatches; or
they could be frozen in one or more floating viewports. They could also
contain some "invisible" objects such as empty text objects or zero-length
polylines.
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Do you have a lisp for superpurge?

 

Chief,

I had the challenge of converting thousands of drawings with many
hundreds of layers containing misc data (points, zero-length plines,
out of scale segments, hidden blocks, hidden attributes referenced in
other layers, ect.) into 16 layers of understandable and logical
information. I put one of my programmers on it, and in a couple of
weeks we created a user friendly program to do this. It worked well
so we took it further and automated this task for batch mode
processing of the drawings. Then wrote a comprehensive automated QC
program to check for all possible problems in each drawing. If an
error was found this program would place a highly visible red donut
around the problem item for manual correction. Once the manual QC
corrections were corrected we then wrote a program to extract the data
from the drawing into MS Access and generated a bill of
materials/investory list for the customer. We ended up reducing the
timeline for the project by 80% which pleased our customer and it
became one of the most profitable, challenging and fun projects I ever
completed. Let me know if I can be of help.

Later,
Play