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Looks like the gang over at Datacad have been hard at work. They have posted updated and .

Yea Mark! I guess I can now dump , maybe. I can read mine a little better, but it's not done being converted from my old page yet.

If you go to the [Purge] section of the dcadwin.ini file, these settings are found.

[Purge]
LineTypes(Manual)=TRUE
Symbols(Manual)=TRUE
Layers(Manual)=FALSE
HatchPatterns(Manual)=TRUE
LineTypes(Automatic)=TRUE
Symbols(Automatic)=TRUE
Layers(Automatic)=FALSE
HatchPatterns(Automatic)=TRUE

If you have
[General]
PurgeDrawingOnExit=1
in the general section set, Datacad will look to the purge section of the ini, and will purge the drawings of un-used Linetypes, Symbols, Layers & Hatch Pattens. Say you create a hatch polyline using one pattern, but then change it to a different pattern, Datacad keeps the first pattern stored in the file until it's purged. I have my Automatic values set to purge everything but layers. This helps keep the drawings from getting large file sizes and I'd imagine speed things up a bit. If the value is set to =0 then all those un-used entities and data stay with the file.

The Manual settings are for when you use the Purge Command from the File menu in Datacad. These are real good ones to have turned on.