This is in ACAD environment, Carlson to be specific.
Every now and then, I zoom extents. My work becomes a tiny little invisible pile in the middle, or edge of the screen. There is some block, or bit of minutia way over a couple of million feet or miles from my job, and it is hard as everything to find it. So, after zooming extents, then zooming out, I select about 1/2 the screen, with a MOVE, to try to find what it is. I occasionally spend 5 mins trying to find a bit of lost garbage.
Is there a faster way to do this?
Thanks.
Nate
Usually it is a block that you accidently inserted at 0,0 or something that you tried to move or copy and exited the command before you finished, sending that item WAY OUT into Never Never Land.
I do a zoom extents, then a zoom 0.25x, until I see the itty-bitty bit out in space. Then I do an erase/crossing. That's the easiest way I know to do it.
(Maybe draw a polyline around all the good stuff and then tell Carlson to erase everything OUTSIDE of the polyline??)
I zoom to the area I want to keep. Then type in erase, all, then remove by a window the stuff I want to keep. Zoom extents again to see if it worked. If so, great, if not I look for blocks and xref's that are hidden or turned off.
I call it "WCS" (Weird Computer Sh**) or even an "id 10 t" erroro.O
Thanks.
N