Purging your Blocks.... Project Wide

This is my last night in South Carolina and I have really enjoyed my time here.  It was very warm compared to what I am used to in Michigan.  I have to get to bed early tonight I have to drive to North Carolina in the morning to catch my flight back home, so I figured I would post a quick tip tonight.  So read on and hopefully you can put this tip to use.

As with any drawings in AutoCAD you end up with many unused block definitions in your drawings, AutoCAD Electrical isn't much different in that aspect, the only main difference is that you could have many drawings you are working with.  I have one customer that has about 300 sheets on average in their projects, that is quite a few drawings to go through and purge the blocks out before shipping or archiving the job. In AutoCAD Electrical a user can purge blocks project wide along with many other project wide utilities.

Project-Wide Utilities

Make sure that the active is saved or a drawing from the project.  From the Projects pull down menu select Project Wide Utilities.

• Click Ok
• Select Project from the next dialog box.
• Click Ok
• Select the drawings to process.
• Click Ok

As you can see from the Project-Wide Utilities dialog box there are many tasks that can be done project wide.

Well, I am going to try to go to sleep a little early to get some sleep.

More to come.....