AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility 2027-2024

May 12, 2026 – Autodesk released AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility with support for AutoCAD 2027, AutoCAD 2026, AutoCAD 2025, and AutoCAD 2024

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The AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility is available via the Autodesk Access App or via download from the Autodesk subscription site.

The AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility Plug In requires access to the original AutoCAD install resources.

The AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility is only available for the AutoCAD 2027, AutoCAD 2026, AutoCAD 2025 and AutoCAD 2024 releases. The Drawing Cleanup Utility does not support AutoCAD LT.

The official release date of the AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility is May 12, 2026

The Drawing Cleanup Utility should not be confused with the Drawing Cleanup Tools included in Map 3D and Civil 3D or the new Geometry Cleanup Tool in AutoCAD 2027.

AutoCAD Drawing Cleanup Utility

Autodesk Drawing Cleanup Utility for AutoCAD is a lightweight standalone application that aims to help users automate the process of cleaning and optimizing AutoCAD drawing files.

In addition to local or network hosted files the Drawing Cleanup Utility will clean DWG and DXF files in Autodesk Forma (Docs), Autodesk Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox

This standalone Cleanup Utility performs a more detailed and expansive version of PURGE and can produce an Excel report on a single .dwg or .dxf file.

The Cleanup Utility will now purge and remove unreferenced XREFs.

When Drawing Scales is checked for cleaning, all unused Drawing Scales in the drawing will be purged. Unlike desktop AutoCAD, the default list of Drawing Scales will not be added back to the drawing.

It is recommended that the AUDIT command is run prior to the Cleanup Utility.

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Current Capabilities

Purgable Objects:

  • Blocks.
  • Dimension Styles.
  • Layers.
  • Linetypes.
  • Text Styles.
  • Registered Applications.
  • Drawing Scales
  • Materials.

Purgable nested items and unnamed objects:

  • Zero-length geometry.
  • Empty text objects.
  • Orphaned data.

Purging of unreferenced XREFs

Downloading of a Report