Although Almas has previously written about the Drawing Cleanup Tools (MAPCLEAN) in a post way back from 2009, I thought that these two words could be very helpful in using this tool: Order Matters. The order in which you send your Cleanup Actions over to the Selected Actions can produce different results when running the Cleanup.
The tool will run the first Action until completion, then run the second Action, third, forth... you get the picture. For example you run the following Actions in this order:
- Zero Length Objects
- Break Crossing Objects
- Simplify Objects
The tool will run and address Zero Length Objects until completion, then proceed on to Break Crossing Objects. The part that gets tricky is the fact that if the Break Crossing Objects action creates any zero length objects they will not be addressed because that function has already be run, as it was first in the list. Running it a second or third time should address all the actions.
It would appear at first glance that the tool is not working correctly, so this should be something you need to be aware of when using Drawing Cleanup.
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