I am having a senior moment

Used to be, in an older version, I would always fight the Point Manager leaving those 'dots'. 

There's probably an intelligent way to erase them. My way was to remember the layer (or query the point details) turn off every other layer and erase.

I am quite disappointed, this post has been viewed 142 times and nobody has pointed me in the right direction to fix my problem.

Some sorry experts all y'all are.

R.J., there is nothing to erase but those dots are the insertion point of a block that has been erased, yet those blasted dots are still there. I wish I could remember how the folks at Carlson told me to do this.

I know; had the same problem once.  Can't remember either:)

Hello Mr. Surveyor,

It has been a long time since CAD for me but i'll give my 0.02.  Try zooming the extents of the drawing.  Then zoom out further than that.  Then try erasing around the "edges" of the drawing with a crossing window.  Sometimes phantom pieces of the block that is leaving the dots may remain till they are eliminated.  No guartantees from me, but give it a try.

Crossing my fingers.

Robert

Sir, that was the first thing I did.

I'm not as dumb as I look, it's close but I'm not that dumb. 

Check to see if it is related to Blips, or blips mode. It happened to me a long time ago, it is supposed to be a dot from an insertion point that you can use as reference (temporarily). Blips mode should give you an option of 0 or 1 (on and off).

Regen. ?ÿThen pull out very far. ?ÿRegion all. ?ÿZoom extents. ?ÿGone.

Dammit. Regen not region. ?ÿHow to edit now?

Getter dumber every day. Sheet! ?ÿMaybe I can do this now. ?ÿFinally figured out what the little symbol means. ?ÿDid not recognize it to mean "edit".

Getting not getter. ?ÿDouble sheet!

It could be a myriad of things ranging from an orphaned custom object (such as those left by Autodesk Civil3D), to a non-typical block insertion to perhaps something I haven't even considered. Based on common things I've seen in the past, it's possible there is a title block near the origin with some project data out at State Plane coordinates resulting in an extremely large zoom scale factor when a Zoom Extents is issued. Not knowing if there are actual points at State Plane coordinates, try the following:

1. At the Command prompt, issue Zoom -- Center (Z [Enter] C [Enter])
2. When prompted for the Center of view, issue the 0,0 coordinate and press Enter.
3. When prompted to Enter zoom factor (nX/nXP), or view height, supply a value of (say) 80 and press Enter.

This action should display everything around the origin within a circle whose diameter is 80 units (e.g. 80'). From here you should be able to see (or determine) if there is anything at or near the origin that is causing the problem. Adjust the above procedure above as needed if you're not seeing the desired results.

Presuming you do see something, zoom out (typically with the wheel action of a mouse) so you can fully see the content near the origin and then draw a closed polyline around the content at the origin. Then, explore the Edit -- Erase -- Erase by Closed Polyline command. The resulting dialog box allows you to specify the the content inside or outside the selected polyline should be removed.

If this isn't it, feel free to send me the drawing file (lnelsonATcarlsonswDOTcom) with information about what you're expecting to see and I'll see what could be causing the problem.

I hope this information helps.

Have you tried DDPTYPE

Can you use DDPTYPE?

Change the nodes from null to something like an X with some size, like 4.

Then delete away...

Sounds like maybe empty text entities or zero length lines or something like that.  I find that if I Ctrl+A to select everything, then Shift and Window everything I want to keep, in these situations there will still be something in the selection set.  Just delete, and that should take care of it.