samifox Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Hi ive goggled “ Incremental Save percentage” and played with it a bit. Please correct me if im wrong, Quick save is allowed by maintaining a new database of the modified data only, its pretty much like saving a new small drawing each time the user perform a quick save. The downside (statistically) is that the file size is increased during the current session. When the limit is reached (x precent of the original size) , all data is merged into one database, and as a result the drawing shrinks into its original size. I saw some post of users claim that the best way is to disabe “Incremental Save percentage” , I don’t understand, if user opens a large drawing without incremental save, that means each time user save the drawing, very long saving time is expected. Those days we don’t have disk space issue, so why not using values like 80 or 90 percent? Thanks S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I like to keep mine set to 25 percent, instead of the default 50 percent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I don't have many drawings over 4Mb and most are less than 1Mb so I set that to 0. Incremental Save Percentage was a band aid back in the day, early 1990's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 It all depends on how slow you think your computer is at saving the larger drawings. Mine is set at 0, and a 9 mb drawing will save before I realise the cursor isn't moving. It's not an issue for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) You guys talked me into it, it is then, thanks. Nothing wrong with keeping one's drawings as lean as possible. Edited June 4, 2015 by Dadgad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samifox Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 It meant to help dealing with large drawing, if your drawing is small there is no sense to enable it, but if you have large drawings (not strategy thought) you can use this to help saving time. About keeping it lean as possible, the file retains its original size when the session ends, so it doesn’t matter (unless AutoCAD didn’t close properly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukecad Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 One potentially important thing to note with ISAVEPERCENT that is not immediately obvious. If it is set to 100% then any autosaved files (.sv$) are FULL drawings; you can change the extension to .dwg and they will open normally. If it is set to anything other than 100% then the .sv$ files are logfiles and you need to use the recovery manager to (sometimes) get them back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.