Exercise duration: ~15 minutes

Practice exercise

Manage drawing health

In this exercise, you will recover a damaged drawing file and purge unreferenced items to
reduce the file size of another drawing.

Learning objectives:

• Recover damaged drawing files.

• Purge unreferenced blocks.

The completed exercise

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1. Open the drawing Mechanical
Sample.dwg. AutoCAD detects errors and
suggests canceling the open and using
the RECOVER command. Click Yes.

Figure 1. Errors detected.

2. Select Recover.

Figure 2. Recovery prompt during OPEN.

3. Review the damaged file report dialog

and then click Close.

Figure 3. Report of errors found and fixed.

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4. Successfully opened drawing after
recovery.

Figure 4. Recovered drawing.

5. Press Control+F2 to review the detailed

drawing recovery report available in the
command window.

Figure 5. Command window showing recovery

details.

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6. Use the PURGE command to purge all
unreferenced blocks, including nested
blocks.

Figure 5. List of unreferenced blocks.

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