2010 Save feature

Good day...

I am getting frustrated with a few of the new "features" of CAD 2010 and was hoping someone may be able to help me with one of the more annoying ones.

Every time i save something it gives me in the command window the following:

Command: A drawing with this name already exists.

Do you want to replace it? Y

I am unsure if this is a CAD '10 issue or our clients profile issue. If it's the clients choice I will discuss this with our IT but was thinking I would see if anyone else is having this happen and if it's possible to get rid of it.

Thanks for any help

I dont think it is a 2010 issue since we have not had that problem.

Make sure you are using the save command and not "Save As"

It's not an AutoCAD issue it's an AutoCAD user issue. Set FILEDIA equal to "0". Just don't invoke the Save command from the command line otherwise you'll still be asked.

I am hitting save not save as.... Probably a built in thing for the profile.

I changed that "filedia" setting to "0" and it still gives me the same thing in the command line.

Guess I will bug IT about it.

Didn't someone post a link a while back about whether or not you were an AutoCAD power user - with a list of "are you sure" type dialogs that could be turned off based on a system variable?

I'll try to find it.

Glen

Save will give you that prompt, qsave will just save it.

Funny. I change Filedia to 0 and click on the Save icon and there's no message.

Try the EXPERT system variable

Funny. I change Filedia to 0 and click on the Save icon and there's no message.

Hmm.....

This is what I'm thinking of:

Command: (command "save")
nil
Save drawing as <C:\Documents and Settings\athompson\My Documents\Drawing1.dwg>:
A drawing with this name already exists.
Do you want to replace it? <N>

Save will give you that prompt, qsave will just save it.

Funny. I change Filedia to 0 and click on the Save icon and there's no message.

No matter what I choose the save button, file save, ctrl+S, etc I get the "are you sure"

I have also changed the FIledia to 0 and 1 just to check no luck.

Try the EXPERT system variable

changing the setting to 2 seems to do it!!

YAY!! Thank you

changing the setting to 2 seems to do it!!

YAY!! Thank you

Still odd that you would have to change the expert mode.

Still odd that you would have to change the expert mode.

I actually have no clue what it does other then make my life easier... HAHA

What else does the "expert" command change?

I actually have no clue what it does other then make my life easier... HAHA

 

What else does the "expert" command change?

Controls whether certain prompts are issued.

0    Issues all prompts normally.
1    Suppresses "About to regen, proceed?" and "Really want to turn the current layer off?" (-LAYER).
2    Suppresses the preceding prompts and "Block already defined. Redefine it?" (-BLOCK) and "A drawing with this name already exists. Overwrite it?" (SAVE or WBLOCK).
3    Suppresses the preceding prompts and those issued by the LINETYPE command prompt (-LINETYPE) if you try to load a linetype that's already loaded or create a new linetype in a file that already defines that linetype.
4    Suppresses the preceding prompts and those issued by UCS Save and VPORTS Save if the name you supply already exists.
5    Suppresses the prompt, "That name is already in Use, redefine it?" issued by the -DIMSTYLE Save option when you supply the name of an existing dimension style.
   Suppresses the same prompt issued by the -SCALELISTEDIT Add option.

When a prompt is suppressed by EXPERT, the operation in question is performed as though you entered y at the prompt. Setting EXPERT can affect scripts, menu macros, AutoLISP, and the command functions.

Thank you alanjt...

Could I ask you how you got that code to show up so I could look it up if I have other controls I would like to know about

Thank you alanjt...

Could I ask you how you got that code to show up so I could look it up if I have other controls I would like to know about

Type: sysvdlg

It means that you have changed something so that AutoCAD won't prompt you if you are about to overwrite a file. Not necessarily a good thing. Yes it solves your current problem - or the symptom of your problem anyway. But my system has EXPERT set to 0 and I am not getting the dialog that you are getting. Something else is at the root of this, but I don't know what.

Glen

What else does the "expert" command change?

The difficulty in using the AutoCAD help files is that you have to know the keyword to find out information. Now that you know the keyword, try the help files, and they will tell you a whole lot more.

Ok so I am reviving this thread to ask a question along the similar lines.

I am having to reset the "expert" to "2" every morning I come in since it seems to revert back to "0" when I close it out. Even if i simply close autocad it will revert back.

Anyone know why this would be happening??

Maybe any other ideas on the save feature thing?

Is the setting saved with the drawing or in the Registry?

I think that it is one of those system variables that are not able to be saved, and default to 0 each time.

Have you looked in your Help section to see what it does in your version?