1) How often do you use the PURGE command in a drawing ?
I'm typically in the same drawing all day (10+hrs) so I purge ~6-8 times a day. More often if I need to clean out crap from the drawing.
^C^C-purge;r;*;n;-scalelistedit;r;y;e;-purge;a;*;n;
is my utility button macro. I pick this whenever the mood strikes. It purges everything (including regapps), and resets the scale list.
2) Do you purge specific things ?
Everything I can purge, I purge. Keep it lean, mean, and clean is my philosophy.
3) If you purge during the drawing process, how do you restore the 'standard' stuff you may need later ?
I have a block I pull from the tool palette that contains all layers, text styles, dimstyles and linetypes. Simple drag-drop-delete and all is restored.
4) Is there anything you'd like to purge that you can't ?
Stuff nested in blocks. This is something I am anal about, and I deal with a bunch of users that are oblivious to all the crap that builds up in a drawing... then they can't understand why their files are always crashing.
I try to clean stuff out but often it is not worth my time to search for the block that contains that annoying 'layer 14', or whatever. :pissed:
I know there are proggys to delete layers in nested blocks and the like, I've just never gotten around to loading one up.