Helpful AutoCAD Solutions for Corrupted Drawings

Corrupted drawings unfortunately occur for a wide variety of reasons such as a bad network or hardware, operating system issues, media degradation like files on old disks, unexpected data or defect, a 3rd party application, or a non Autodesk product saving a DWG file. Here are a couple solutions to assist in recovering the files.

Recover damaged drawing files
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS67106

Difference between AUDIT and RECOVER commands
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS54343

Recovering a damaged drawing if the RECOVER command is not successful
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS19369

Using DesignCenter to recover a drawing and retain layouts
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS43354

Cheers,
-Shaan

7 comments

Thank you. I am looking into this and will correct any broken links. I had checked them this morning, but perhaps too early in the morning before my coffee.
All fixed. It looks like the web blog publishing stripped the “=” out of those two links causing the break.
Thanks for the heads up and also reading the blog. You are now among thousands that visit daily from the look at my log files.
Cheers,
-Shaan

Kristof says:

Hi Shaan, we have had a network error some time ago, so that now many drawings (dwg) won’t open. Every time we get a message “drawing file is not valid”. I’ve tried all possible solutions to recover them, but nothing seems to work. Is there any chance that I still might do so, even with special software please? These are just too many valable drawings. Thanx for the support!

If the network deleted critical parts of the file like the header, then the files are most likely beyond repair like any other file. There is no way for a program to guess what the critical missing pieces of the drawing were. You can email me a small zipped dwg example to take a look at but when a part of the file is missing there is really nothing that can be done.
Shaan

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