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Archive a project

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- [Instructor] In this video let's talk about archiving a project. When you do a major milestone or an issue, you typically like to keep a version of the project and put it away somewhere for safe keeping. You know, it's kind of an extra backup or just to have a record of what was issued at a particular point in time. Now, there are a couple of ways that you could approach that. One option is to just simply generate a multi-sheet pdf of the state of the project, you know, at the time when you issued it. And use that pdf as your archive. The trouble with that is it's not a model. So, if for some reason you ever needed to reopen that model, you know, the pdf wouldn't give you access to doing that. Some would argue that's fine, because the pdf is meant to record a point in history. And if you open up the model and change it, then you're changing that point in history. So, it kind of defeats the purpose. So, if you're content to do the pdf, then that's the easiest way to archive a project…

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