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Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

(OP)
I am looking for a way to change the "Save Changes To" prompt every time you go to open a new drawing. (Even if you have done NOTHING to the drawing)
Sometimes I am just looking at something in a drawing, or even if I just PRINT a drawing, when I go to open another drawing I ALWAYS get that promt. It's very anoying, especially if you open a lot of drawings that you do nothing to.
With Acad 14, this was not an issue, It did not promp you unless you actually DID something to the drawing.
Anyone know how I can change this to be like 14???
Thanks

Glen

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

By chance are these drawings older versions(R14, R13 etc...) files.  When you bring in an older file, Autocad will update it to a 2000 file and this my be what your seeing.

Regards,

Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
www.stacoenergy.com

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

TO CLOSE DRAWING WITHOUT SAVE YES/NO

(COMMAND "VBASTMT" "ThisDrawing.Close 0" "")

Make a macro tool and write this line into it.
When you want to close a dwg without seeing the save yes/no prompt, you click on this tool.

Setting expert = 5 is not helping in this case.
Was there a check box in options for this or is it a  false deja vu I feel here? I looked for and could not find it but cant hang off the feeling.

www.homescript.com

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

Steve

It is the zooms that are percieved as changes in the drawing. If drawing were not zoomed or penned, and if there were no version update (your point, precisely), on closing there would be no message box asking.

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

(OP)
The zooms to screw me up, I am aware of that.
But I think I have found my real problem.
It is happening after I PRINT a drawing.
If I just open it, I can close it.
But if I open and PRINT it, then I get the stupid prompt.
I am saving over 14 files but i am saving them AS 14 files so there is no update there.
I think the printing thing is triggering the prompt.
Anyway to turn THAT off???

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

Sorry Glen,
I've seen both the print and zoom do this but it's never bothered me enough to try to "fix" it.  Hopefully someone else can help you.

Good Luck,

Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
www.stacoenergy.com

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

how do you create a house design using autocad??

RE: Can anyone help with this AutoCad 2000 question???

Not sure if is correct or not, but if you're using AutoCAD2000, I believe that it stores some of the plot settings (used to be .pcp files in earlier releases) within the drawing.  When you print, it wants to update the print file settings, even if you didn't change anything.  Please let me know if this is incorrect, as it is all I have to go by.

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