Text Styles Refuse to Go Away

[JStephen]

I've got a drawing that I use as a template to start other drawings. Somehow through the ages, it has gotten a dozen text styles on it that I can't delete. I can delete everything in the drawing, delete xrefs, blocks, dim styles, etc., but those dozen text styles are still there. If I try to purge, they can't be purged. If I click on them and try to delete, it will say "text style in use" and can't be deleted. Any ideas?

 

[Exxit]

JStephen,

try

http://www.manusoft.com/Software/SuperPurge/Index.stm

L.

ADT 2004
ACAD 2002

 

[IFRs]

Have you tried erase all?

 

[JStephen]

IFRs, I assume you mean "erase" then "all" for the selection- it still leaves the text styles, though.

I DO get a message that says "1 was not in current space". Dunno what that means. I've erased everything in paper space and in model space. Hitting "select all" doesn't select anything.

Exxit- looks like the product I need, although, why that capability isn't built into a $$$$$ software in the first place is beyond me.

 

[loosestring]

Do you perhaps have some empty attributes floating around in the dwg? Try attdisp > on and look around. Erase any you see. Make your current text style one that you plan to use and then purge the text styles.

 

[lpseifert]

I've noticed that if you use a text style in a dimension style the text style does not want to purge, even if you delete/purge the dimension style. I wish I had a solution for you, maybe SuperPurge.

 

[JStephen]

Can't find any attributes floating around. It seems the one object I have left is a Viewport- is the view you're looking through on the screen always a viewport?

 

[CarlB]

You could try dxfout (or save as dxf), in a text editor do a "find" for style names, it may give you a clue what object(?) the styles are attached to.

 

[IFRs]

You may have a zero-length text string hanging around. Can you WBlock the drawing twice? ONce from paperspace and once from model space? Then open and combine the new drawings. Then drag and drop the blocks to the new one.

 

[QuincyFox]

If you have ExpressTools, you can type EXW, then make a random window (or select everything that you want in a drawing (turn everything on and thawed)). This will select everything that you did not select. In an "empty" drawing, this selects all of the blocks that don't have anything in them, all the empty text, etc. Then erase whatever it finds.