Spooner04

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SHORT TITLE FOR SUGGESTION/BUG/ENHANCEMENT REQUEST
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A Purge Function


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REQUEST
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A feature that would clear a max file of all unused data, materials, layers, etc.
The same thing that auto cad has.

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WHY THIS REQUEST IS IMPORTANT TO YOU
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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.

frank1331

you can type "GC()" and that should clean up the drawing.

Rick Eloy

Btw, GC = Garbage Collector. Take a look at the help files for more details.

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Rick Eloy
reb digital - Really, I'm doing it for the kids...

Matt Clementson

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).

Spooner04

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.