God Bless you AutoSave

That is all.

That is all.

We've all been there, done that!

And let's not forget "Let us purge!", Audit, Regenall. Save!

I go 'AUDIT, PURGE, ZOOM E, SAVE'

I hate opening somebody elses drawing that has not been zommed to extents before saving.

I go 'AUDIT, PURGE, ZOOM E, SAVE'

 

I hate opening somebody elses drawing that has not been zommed to extents before saving.

Can't stand that myself although, at times I am guilty too!

Guess another sticky note is in order!

what does audit do? i normally do purge and save.

I go 'AUDIT, PURGE, ZOOM E, SAVE'

 

I hate opening somebody elses drawing that has not been zommed to extents before saving.

Unlocked viewports and paperspace layouts left in model mode (clicked within the viewport) = :reallymad:

What does audit do? I normally do purge and save.

"Evaluates the integrity of a drawing." Best check your help files.

AUDIT needs to be a routinely used command.

I go 'AUDIT, PURGE, ZOOM E, SAVE'

 

I hate opening somebody else's drawing that has not been zoomed to extents before saving.

ok confession time, i have been practising some very bad cad habits,having never used the audit command and not zoomed to extents when saving. i have now seen the errors of my ways and shall do the above every time i save a completed drawing.

Turned off autosave in '88. Thank goodness Inventor doesn't have autosave. I hate for the computer to take control away from me when I am in the middle of something.

I WAS with you JD, but the autosave on 2004 at least, waits for a moment of inactivity before doing it's thing. It's definately saved my butt a few times.

Audit should be used regularly? I've used it maybe 12 times in my career, right around when "oddities" occur on a drawing, but only had it find and fix anything 3 times.

"Zoom E" before you save? for what purpose? I usually zoom into a titleblock view that defines project name and revision number so that I know I'm on the right file when I load it up again, or look at the file in thumbnail mode.

It used to be that if you save an autocad file with the full contents on the screen, it would use up more memory when you saved it. I'm guessing it no longer does that now, but old habits die hard.

Purge, I only use when I'm done with a project, rather than done with a drawing.. that's an old habit too.. before design center came along. If you purged at any other point, you'd have to reload the blocks we used for fabrication. (I use the same files for design, client approval drawings, and then fabrication).

The exception is when I basepoint copy a single item to a new (empty) CAD file to save it as a DXF for CNC processing.. but then again, I'm completely done with that DXF drawing at that point.