If you have ever tried to purge a textstyle, layer, linetype, etc. in a Civil 3D drawing, and you are prevented from doing so, but you cannot find the object in the drawing? If the object cannot be found in…
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A very common issue with AutoCAD is the presence of the dialog below. If you receive this dialog, it means you are missing a shape file that is referenced in the drawing. Shape files contain shapes that can be used…
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We have been recently running across AutoCAD DWG files that contain hundreds of non-purgable linetypes, some with strange names, some that appear to be nested in mysterious blocks, etc. With help from the Autodesk Forums and some independent research, I became…
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