Broph Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 A workmate told me that there was a way on Autocad that you could "checkpoints"... i.e. set one, do some work and if it didn't work, you could press a command and it would go back to where you set that checkpoint... He couldn't remember the command though... Can anyone help out? Cheers. Quote
Jack_O'neill Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 been using autocad for more than 20 years, never heard of that one. still, I learn new things about it nearly every day. you can do that with the saveas command, and name each version of what you do with a unique name. alternately, buzzsaw offered what might could be called 'checkpoints' in that you could back up to a previous revision that had been released on that system. essentially the same thing as I described before. there may be some third party software that does that that I am not aware of, but as far as i know, autocad doesnt' offer that on it's own. Quote
ReMark Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 I think you are referring to the UNDO command and the use of the Mark/Back option. This is covered in your AutoCAD Help file a portion of which I'll share with you now. "Mark places a mark in the undo information. Back undoes all the work done back to this mark. If you undo one operation at a time, you are informed when you reach the mark." Quote
Broph Posted February 17, 2011 Author Posted February 17, 2011 Hey ReMark, yeah mate that's the one! Cheers! Quote
Jack_O'neill Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 I think you are referring to the UNDO command and the use of the Mark/Back option. This is covered in your AutoCAD Help file a portion of which I'll share with you now. "Mark places a mark in the undo information. Back undoes all the work done back to this mark. If you undo one operation at a time, you are informed when you reach the mark." Well, yeah, but anybody could have done it that way! Sorry Broph, I was overthinking it I guess. I have customers that take off on tangents, and I've learned to hang on to everything. They'll send in a design and just about the time I get it done, they want to change the doors and windows, and rearrange the rooms. The next revision makes a 3 bedroom apartment into 2 bigger ones and a small den. Then they'll want a balcony with a curtainwall. Then they find out how much all that will cost and come up with a different arrangement all together. Many times they back all the way up to the first or second version. I really don't care how many times they change it, I charge by the hour. I was seeing you wanting to move back and forth through something like that. Quote
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