Practice Exercise: Manage drawing health

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This is the solution video for managing drawing health. In

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a

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there are many possible ways to approach any given task and what is

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best and most intuitive for one user may not be for another.

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These solutions videos demonstrate just one set of work flows

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that could be taken when working through these practice exercises.

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They are not intended to be step by step instructions but rather a

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guided tour of one user's approach and rationale in completing this exercise.

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The drawing provided for this practice exercise has

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a number of errors which will cause Autocad

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to recommend

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that it be recovered.

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Accept the recommendations for the recovery process.

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A detailed report is provided detailing what the issues were

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and how they were resolved in the recovery process.

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The next task in this practice exercise is to

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clean up the drawing using the purge command.

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The simplest approach is just to click the purge all button or

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you can be selective and check only those items that you want purged

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using the purge nested items. Option is convenient because once an item is purged,

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it may expose nested items within it that can also then be purged as

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a result using this option is a way to do a more thorough purge

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with fewer steps.