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Drawing Crash Recovery Introduction If you have been using computers for a while chances are that have experienced a crash or that the power has gone out in the middle of your work. So, with AutoCAD, what do you do in these situations? It’s not always easy to reproduce work once it’s already completed. If you were fixing redlines, then you’ve already highlighted making it a lot of work to go back and check that you changed every detail. If you were designing, it’s hard to remember exactly what you did or why you were doing it.
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Quick Save Before we even talk about drawing recovery we should look over a very important habit, QSAVE. QSAVE, CTRL+S or the save icon will save your drawing fairly quickly.
If you get a phone call, if you are going to go check your email, or if you’re off to the restroom, make sure to throw a save in. Although AutoCAD has an automatic save feature, it should not be relied on to save your drawings. Instead it should be used as a reminder that you need save your drawing. In the OPTIONS dialogue box, under the Open and Save tab is the setting for Automatic Save and the time duration between each save. A good setting for this is thirty minutes. This time is the amount of time since the last save, whether it was an automatic or manual save. You may have noticed while you are drafting, right when you finish a command, the command line will pop up a message such as “Automatic save to C: DOCUME1 USER LOCALS1 Temp Base-PromotedE 123986.sv$' This message can be quite irritating if it appears too often as you have to wait for the drawing to save.
A good thing about this message is that it reminds us that we’re not QSAVEing often enough. Furthermore, right after an automatic save fires, you should still throw in a QSAVE anyways. The reason that saving after an Automatic Save is important is that when you exit AutoCAD all the.SV$ files are automatically deleted. When you close AutoCAD it’s just like when you shut down Windows and it goes and cleans out some files before you leave to save hard drive space. It’s only in the event when a QUIT is not run that the SV$ files can save you. To prevent drawing corruption, it's important to change the 'Incremental save precentage' setting in the Open and Save tab of the OPTIONS dialogue box. Incremental save is used so that only new information is written to the DWG file when saving.
Once enough changes have been made to reach the incremental save percentage (i.e. 50%), the next save will be a full save. This can speed up the process of quick saving, but increases the chances of losing data when a crash occurs.
The slight increase in speed is not worth the potential of losing data. Therefore, it's a good idea to set your ISAVEPERCENT to ZERO, so that every save is a full save. Recovering Your Drawing So, what happens if you have not been saving, and AutoCAD crashes. The most natural thing to do first is to go and restart AutoCAD. When you quit AutoCAD and reenter, hopefully you’ll see the, if you do not see the manager, it can be opened by typing DRAWINGRECOVERY.
This is only a feature of AutoCAD 2006 and newer versions. If you are using an older version of AutoCAD you will have to go find the files manually. First of all, where are the Autosave files located? One file type, mentioned earlier, is the SV$, the Auto Save file. The location of these can be found by opening up the OPTIONS box and going to the Files tab.
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The path listed under the Automatic Save File Location is where the files are located. By default this is located in the Windows temporary directory for the user in Documents and Settings. To access this folder, you will need the view for hidden folders enabled in Windows. While enabling the view for hidden folders, it's useful to it’s useful to show extensions for known file types so that you can properly rename the files to DWG. To do these, open up My Computer or Windows Explorer and go to the Tools menu-Folder Options-View tab and uncheck the box next to “Hide extensions for known file types” and hit the radio button for 'Show hidden files and folders.'
Now you can browse through Windows Explorer to the location of the Automatic Save Files. There should be a.SV$ file in that location with a name similar to your.DWG. Change the file extension from.SV$ to.DWG and open the drawing in AutoCAD. Review the file to ensure that all of the data is there. The other kind of file that will be useful is the BAK file. This file is actually a copy of the file before the last save.
This means that the first time that a file is saved, no BAK file will exist. The second time a drawing is saved, the BAK file will be created containing the information from the first save. These files are created in the same directory where the drawing is located. BAK files will only be created if the setting to create BAK files is toggled on. This can be found in the OPTIONS box under the Open and Save tab, “Create backup copy with each save.” Change the file extension from.BAK to.DWG, rename the file to something different than the original, and open it up in AutoCAD. Compare the.SV$,.BAK, and the original.DWG to determine which is the most up-to-date, and that it contains all of the drawing data.
Retain a backup of all of the original files, and rename the appropriate file to the original DWG name. Finally, there’s a chance that the drawing is corrupted. After saving the drawing run the AUDIT command choose YES to fix all the errors. You should now be ready to continue drawing. Particular commands tend to crash the program more than others like hatch and 3d orbit.
It is a good idea to QSAVE before you run these commands, or any others you find that crash the program.