How to clean AutoCAD drawing, six methods

If you are also wondering how to clean AutoCAD drawings then this article will help you with six different methods.

AutoCAD drawings specially the old ones tend to accumulate a lot of redundant data that slows it down.

Eventually it creates performance issue but fixing slow AutoCAD or slow AutoCAD drawing is quite easy as explained in this article.

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Let’s start with the most common Purge and Overkill commands.

PURGE and Overkill

These are probably the first few commands which are used by almost every draftsman to clean their drawing.

Purging a drawing cleans all redundant or unused entities like layers, blocks, line types etc from your drawing.

To use purge command type PURGE on the command line and hit enter, a new purge window will pop up.

Click on Purge All button from this window, you may need to click on Purge all button several times to remove all redundant objects from the drawing.

When the drawing becomes completely clean the purge all button grays out, click on close button to exit purge window.

Overkill is another such cleanup tool, by using overkill all the overlapping or duplicate drawing entities can be removed and merged together.