{"id":176,"date":"2006-01-05T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/01\/05\/purge-the-forgotten-command\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T04:23:17","slug":"purge-forgotten-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2006\/01\/purge-forgotten-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Purge &#8211; the Forgotten Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that the Purge command is most likely been set aside nowadays. We now have such expanded CPU power, loads of RAM and semi-unlimited storage space for our files. It seems like no one Purges anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, you use it when you are having troubles, but not as a routine part of CAD. I have seen many files that were blotted and needed to loose some &#8220;wait&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So why do you need to Purge from time to time?<\/p>\n<p>1.  Reduced file size<br \/>\n2.  Avoid potential problem data<br \/>\n3.  Cleans out the layer list<br \/>\n4. Purges the following &#8211; Blocks, Dimstyles, Layers, LTypes, Plotstyles, Shapes, TextStyles, Mlinestyles, Tablestyles, Regapps or All the above.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes AutoCAD Purge is not enough.  Here are some alternatives to the AutoCAD tool&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtbworld.com\/smartpurger.htm\">SmartPurger<\/a> at JTB World<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotsoft.com\/dwgpurge.htm\">DwgPurge 8.0<\/a> by DotSoft<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manusoft.com\/Software\/SuperPurge\/Index.stm\">SuperPurge<\/a> by Manusoft<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m8tools.com\/batchm8.htm\">M8Tools<\/a> for batch Purging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that the Purge command is most likely been set aside nowadays. We now have such expanded CPU power, loads of RAM and semi-unlimited storage space for our files. It seems like no one Purges anymore. Oh yeah, you use it when you are having troubles, but not as a routine part of CAD. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20,44],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocad-2007","category-software","category-the-basics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}