Well now that you know where the bad layer exist, you can modify those blocks. Unable to Delete Layer $AUDIT-BAD. By CJohnson.140739 in forum AutoCAD 3D. Cleaning a Corrupted AutoCAD Drawing. Be particularly alert for blocks or layers with the. Also watch for any layers with “AUDIT-BAD-LAYER” in the.

Situation: I have a drawing (A) that I am trying to write out as a block to insert into another drawing (B). However when I try to insert it, AutoCAD crashes. During troubleshooting, I found that Drawing A contains an entity called $AUDIT_BAD_BLOCK. After trying to find the bad block all I could find was the mentioned text, no geometry, etc. Then I tried to get rid of it by purging, exploding all blocks, writing out entire drawing A as a block to itself, etc. But the bad block is still in there.

Where from comes the layer $AUDIT-BAD-LAYER? » Find all DWG drawings with the given text in a block. Publish interactive 3D PDF models from AutoCAD. Hello All, Does anyone know how to fix Bad Block issues? A user here added a 3-4 blocks to an existing base drawing yesterday, then today the drawing.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Your help is much appreciated.thanks! Try selecting it with quick select and deleting it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 'francisc' wrote in message news:85191302300.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum2.autodesk.com. >Situation: >I have a drawing (A) that I am trying to write out as a block to insert into another drawing (B). However when I try to insert it, AutoCAD crashes. During troubleshooting, I found that Drawing A contains an entity called $AUDIT_BAD_BLOCK.

>>After trying to find the bad block all I could find was the mentioned text, no geometry, etc. Then I tried to get rid of it by purging, exploding all blocks, writing out entire drawing A as a block to itself, etc. Boxford Cad Cam Software. But the bad block is still in there.

>>Does anyone have any suggestions? Your help is much appreciated.thanks! Superpurge is a third party app that you have to pay for. Try right clicking in the drawing area and selecting 'quick select' from the menu.

Under 'Object type' select 'Block reference' under properties, select Name under value, type $AUDIT_BAD_BLOCK click OK. If the command line says anything was selected, you can now inspect what was selected and delete it. If that doesn't work, you can WBLOCK out a layer or two at a time, or perhaps even the whole drawing, and the bad block will often disappear. --------------------------------- 'francisc' wrote in message news:157215173253.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1. >whats superpurge? I tried typing it but it does not work.