Check & clean up drawing
Purpose
Searches the drawing for findings — lines without length, coincident elements, dimensions without a reference, orphaned references — and offers to remove what it finds. Recommendations that make the geometry more usable (converting polylines into lines) come on top.
Access
- File menu File → “🧹 Check & clean up drawing…” (1) — in both interfaces.
- Command search : “check” or “clean up” (category View).
- Automatically after every DXF and SVG import as soon as findings appear.
- No keyboard shortcut.
Procedure
- Call the command. If the view is on a sheet, LiberoDraft first switches to model space and reports “Cleanup works on the model — switched to model space”.
- The check runs in five steps with a progress bar.
- The dialog shows a tally of the drawing content and the finding types with their counts. “Show” jumps to the findings and makes them blink orange.
- Tick what should be cleaned up, then “🧹 Clean up”. The status bar reports how many elements were removed or converted.
What is checked
| Block | Finding types |
|---|---|
| Data and references | zero-length lines · circles/arcs with radius 0 · degenerate polylines · duplicate elements · empty hatches · dimensions without valid reference geometry · orphaned weld groups · groups with missing members · empty groups · orphaned constraints |
| Geometry recommendations | convert two-point polylines into lines · coincident hatches · explode polylines, splines and blocks |
The recommendations “explode polylines”, “explode splines” and “explode blocks” are deliberately not ticked in advance — they change the structure of the drawing.
Effect
The cleanup is one undo step: Ctrl + Z restores the previous state. Display, export and measurements are untouched by the check itself; only “Clean up” changes the drawing.