jaccna Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 This may be overly simplistic, but I started using autocad in version 2.1 and have always used the save command to save a copy to another name, while still remaining in the original file. As my company grew and my need for additional seats I made the decision to use LT (most of my autocad work is in 2D). Several times I tried to get this simple little option addressed, but to no avail, in fact one autocad representative told me that I couldn't expect such a command in LT (you know, for the money) This is my first venture into posting on a forum, and this may be totally out of place, but you "live and learn" Does anyone have an opinion on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organic Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Are you talking about File -> Save As (or is this some other feature)? If so I am fairly sure AutoCad Lt has that (althoguh don't have a copy installed currently to check). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 It is as simple as typing SAVE, enter, enter a name in any location, done. The original file will still be up and the new file will reside in the location you choose. If you are using save from a menu or ribbon it might be mapped to qsave, so type save instead, or .save would be even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph_map Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 This may be overly simplistic, but I started using autocad in version 2.1 and havealways used the save command to save a copy to another name, while still remaining in the original file. Try the wblock command with whole dwg option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 On the menu bar - Click File, click Save As... Or do you want the little (2) next to the identical file name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 On the menu bar - Click File, click Save As... Or do you want the little (2) next to the identical file name? The OP states"...always used the save command to save a copy to another name, while still remaining in the original file." Saveas will not keep you in the original file, Save will do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph_map Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 The OP states"...always used the save command to save a copy to another name, while still remaining in the original file." Saveas will not keep you in the original file, Save will do this. Correct so as long as you type in SAVE the SAVE on the file pulldown menu and the Application Ribbon use the Qsave command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaccna Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Try the wblock command with whole dwg option. Why didn't I think of that, very good, you get a gold star. I appreciate the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaccna Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 In regular autocad yes but not in LT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 In regular autocad yes but not in LT Are you saying in LT you can't type .save? It doesn't recognize the command or just what happens when you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaccna Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 When you enter the "Save" command in LT you get a qsave, Sketchup has a good approach to this, when you issue a save, it simply saves a copy of your file, no questions asked. A "saveas" is the same as in autocad. On the file menu there is a "save a copy as". This performs a save to another file name, but you continue in the original file. That tip about using "wblock" with the "entire dwg" option, kinda gives me what I previously knew as the "save" command in regular autocad. I just got a kick out of the autocad techy's telling me that since you didn't pay for regular autocad, you don't get that command. Kinda like buying a cheap car, and being told, oh for that price you don't get brakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 When you enter the "Save" command in LT you get a qsave, Sketchup has a goodapproach to this, when you issue a save, it simply saves a copy of your file, no questions asked. A "saveas" is the same as in autocad. On the file menu there is a "save a copy as". This performs a save to another file name, but you continue in the original file. That tip about using "wblock" with the "entire dwg" option, kinda gives me what I previously knew as the "save" command in regular autocad. I just got a kick out of the autocad techy's telling me that since you didn't pay for regular autocad, you don't get that command. Kinda like buying a cheap car, and being told, oh for that price you don't get brakes. If you TYPE THE WORD ".SAVE" at the command line you will get what you are after. Don't pick on a menu button or toolbar, TYPE out the word .SAVE, hit enter, proceed from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_O'neill Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 If you TYPE THE WORD ".SAVE" at the command line you will get what you are after. Don't pick on a menu button or toolbar, TYPE out the word .SAVE, hit enter, proceed from there. I just tried it in both packages (downloaded a trial of LT2012 a couple days ago). In Autocad, it works like you say...type in .save or just 'save' and it pops up a dialog box and you can save a copy of the drawing with a different name or in a different folder or whatever, and stay in the original. In LT2012, a ".save" acts like a qsave. I don't understand the purpose of making this command act differently in the 2 packages, but they did. Makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I just tried it in both packages (downloaded a trial of LT2012 a couple days ago). In Autocad' date=' it works like you say...type in .save or just 'save' and it pops up a dialog box and you can save a copy of the drawing with a different name or in a different folder or whatever, and stay in the original. In LT2012, a ".save" acts like a qsave. I don't understand the purpose of making this command act differently in the 2 packages, but they did. Makes no sense.[/quote'] OK, thanks for confirming. LT looks less and less viable as an alternate, the list of commands that have been disabled continues to grow. So the most obvious choice I see for the OP is to saveas to a new file name, close that file, open the original file. Or if not in the file, rename the file, open, saveas to original file name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_O'neill Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Or simply do a save, followed by a save as, give it a name and keep going. You'd be working on the new file, but the original would be intact. For instance, if the thing was called whatsit1 then hit save, then save as whatsit2 and keep working. some time in the future, repeat with whatsit3. You'd have incremental files that show the progress on the job that way, and they'd be numbered sequentially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Or simply do a save' date=' followed by a save as, give it a name and keep going. You'd be working on the new file, but the original would be intact. For instance, if the thing was called [i']whatsit1[/i] then hit save, then save as whatsit2 and keep working. some time in the future, repeat with whatsit3. You'd have incremental files that show the progress on the job that way, and they'd be numbered sequentially. The OP wrote ..and have always used the save command to save a copy to another name, while still remaining in the original file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaccna Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 Yes that would be an "autosave" function. I like the wblock workaround, when saving to another location on the network "saveas" leaves you out there at another network location, I know this is much ado about nothing, (I have never spent so much time on a sort of trivial matter) buuut it has been interesting, and has gotten me familiar with the forum process, again thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Are you saying in LT you can't type .save? It doesn't recognize the command or just what happens when you do that? It Saves. It merely saves current edits to the current dwg, no secondary copy results. Sorry. Somebody said that already, yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen1980 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 OK, thanks for confirming. LT looks less and less viable as an alternate, the list of commands that have been disabled continues to grow. So the most obvious choice I see for the OP is to saveas to a new file name, close that file, open the original file. Or if not in the file, rename the file, open, saveas to original file name. I work with LT and they have been giving us more and more full version 2D functionality over the last 5 years. The only problem I have is the lack of LISP. I want to play with LISP and learn how to automate the boring stuff e.g. the other day I had to renumber 120 block attributes to match an excel file. I like the WBlock workaround, it even retains X-Ref paths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I like the wblock workaround, but WBLOCK will strip all redundant information (in effect PURGE the drawing). You may want this but if you have set up blocks and layers in readiness for the next stage you will need to recreate them after the WBLOCK instruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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