Purge using ObjectDBX?

I have not found a way to do this yet with the acad object model, any ideas?
James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

You have to cycle thru the AxDbDocument and perform
your own cleanup magic

 

hmm, wonder if that will be fast enough....

"michael puckett" <>
|>You have to cycle thru the AxDbDocument and perform
|>your own cleanup magic
|>
|>> I have not found a way to do this yet with the acad object model, any ideas?
|>> James Maeding
|>> Civil Engineer/Programmer
|>

James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

Fast enough for me on 10 - 100 MB dwgs.

 

I would think you could just delete from the pertinent collections and trap
the errors(for those objects that are referenced and there fore cant' be
deleted(purged)
eg:
on error resume next
For objlay in objLayerscol
objlay.delete
next
etc???
just an idea
maybe not even a good one?

Mark

 

That is a good one. Much simpler than me doing the thinking.
Toolpac has an awesome tool for doing purges without opening drawings by the way.
I need to do other things besides purge though, so I am trying to do my own dbx batcher...
thanks

"Mark Propst" <notmark-at-atreng-dot-com>
|>I would think you could just delete from the pertinent collections and trap
|>the errors(for those objects that are referenced and there fore cant' be
|>deleted(purged)
|>eg:
|>on error resume next
|>For objlay in objLayerscol
|>objlay.delete
|>next
|>etc???
|>just an idea
|>maybe not even a good one?
|>
|>Mark
|>
|>|>> I have not found a way to do this yet with the acad object model, any
|>ideas?
|>> James Maeding
|>> Civil Engineer/Programmer
|>

James Maeding
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

Hi, James. Yes you could do a home-grown purge on an ObjectDBX opened file the
way Mark suggested.
Do a Google search for "Purge block group code 70" (c. 1/2002) and you'll find
all kindsa neat advice from Tony and Stephan regarding references. Just do a
lot of testing before you unleash it. I used their advice to create my PURGEALL
routine which includes APPIDS and Groups. Never thought of applying it to
external files, but it would be easy to alter. Watch out for the blocks
collection as Layouts are members but are not referenced (hint=IsLayout).