Spooner04 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT TITLE FOR SUGGESTION/BUG/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Purge Function --------------------------------------------------------------- DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REQUEST --------------------------------------------------------------- A feature that would clear a max file of all unused data, materials, layers, etc. The same thing that auto cad has. --------------------------------------------------------------- WHY THIS REQUEST IS IMPORTANT TO YOU --------------------------------------------------------------- Because it's ridiculous to keep creating a new file and then merging everything in from another file. I think that as B.I.M. software becomes more prevalent this will become more necessary as it seems Revit and autocad for Architecture models come in with a great deal of unnecessary information. And I'm not referring just to things like "A-Elec-wires" layer or something along those lines. I'm referring to all the nodes and other dingleberry, legacy garbage that can't seem to be deleted off of the geometry. Please make a purge command. Please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank1331 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 you can type "GC()" and that should clean up the drawing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Btw, GC = Garbage Collector. Take a look at the help files for more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Clementson Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Also the MAX file is not like a CAD file - it does a garbage collection on save and only ever stores what's in the file, no unused information is stored in the file (admittedly empty layers will remain). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooner04 Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 Thanks for the replies. I was having issues with a model a few weeks ago. We were going through and converting MR mats to VRay and even though the files no longer had any MR mats that were being used the GC function wouldn't clear out the MR mats. And now that I think about it I've never noticed an improvement after typing in GC. And after running a search for Garbage Collector and GC in max 2008 help files I didn't get any hits. So...... perhaps the request should read improved Garbage Collector, maybe mine is broken. The thing I like about the purge function in CAD is that it eliminates anything that is hidden: objects, layers, geometry, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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