You can check out my post here for more wildcards and their use. One is using a wildcard, in this case, the asterisk. In my little monograph on Regapps above, I provided two other tips. If they’re a problem for you, the utility will be well worth your time. If you go here, you can download the Regapp Cleanup Utility, which works in AutoCAD 2021 and above. While using -PURGE works great for one drawing, there’s now a better solution for batch processing. Needless to say, these little snippets of code are quite infectious. If you have a lot, after about the tenth time entering “Y” to the prompt, you’ll hit Escape, start over and specify “No.” You’re welcome. Finally, (and this is very important) say “No” to the prompt to verify each one. The workflow goes like this: Call the -PURGE command, Type R for Regapps.Īccept the asterisk to specify that you want to get them all. Up until recently, that was the only way to remove them. Fun fact: the most I’ve ever heard of is 256K.īack to the Regapp option in -PURGE. In fact, it’s not uncommon to hear tales of users finding tens or even hundreds of thousands of Regapps in a drawing. But if you’re in an environment where these are common, you can easily collect thousands of these things. You won’t notice any issues if you have just a few hanging around. When the file or program, along with its XData, is removed, the Regapp remains. Your next question is, “What’s a Regapp?” Without getting too deep into it (it’s never wise to put your readers to sleep), files or programs that contain “Extended Entity Data” (or XData) write a tiny bit of code called a Registered Application in your drawing file to easily retrieve the data it needs.
If your drawing file is experiencing performance issues, purging Regapps is on a CAD manager’s go-to list of things to do. The additional purgeable item is called Regapps. How’s this for a start… Did you know you have an extra option in the command line version? No doubt any CAD manager knows about it, but it’s relatively obscure otherwise.
But why use the command line version of PURGE, you might ask? I will give you some compelling reasons. Many dialog-based AutoCAD commands have a corresponding command line version.
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