Use Recoverall to Cleanup Drawings

If you are working on a project and the drawings are slow to load a great cleanup tool is called RECOVERALL. What does it do?

RECOVERALL opens and the selected file and each and every associated Xref and cleans up the drawing integrity. A great time to use this tool is when you start working on a pre-AutoCAD 2010 project.

Here is how it works:
Make sure that you are not in any of the files that you want to Recover.

1. Type RECOVERALL at the command line (or from the File pulldown -> Drawing Utilities > Recover drawings and xrefs).
2. Select the PGA (non-xref) drawing that you want to Recover.
3. Repeat on other project drawings.

Give it a try! It may speed up your drawings by 20-30%.

Xref Fading in AutoCAD 2010

In AutoCAD 2010 you may notice Xrefs are faded, this is a new feature. To control this behavior add the command line type: XDWGFADECTL and set it to 0 (no fading) or 30 (30% fading).

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