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Saving files

Saving files - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Saving files

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- [Instructor] Once we have our drawing open or put a lot of work into our new drawing, we need to save our work. Under the file menu we'll find two commands, namely save and save as. Save will save your work back to the current file. When it does this, it creates a dot BAK file. This backup file is the old drawing before you made any changes. If there was already a dot BAK file, it is erased and replaced with the new one. So the original dot DWG file that existed before you made any changes becomes the dot BAK file and the file with all of your new changes becomes the new DWG file. The other command here is save as. This creates a new file with a new name with all of your changes. The base file or the file you started with remains intact and unchanged. This is helpful if you've done so much work and made so many changes that you want to save all of this new work as a new drawing so that you have the original to go back…

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