Locking a Drawing
Locking a Drawing
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Hi,
I have a drwing whose model has creeped through the system and been altered. Fortunately the drawings has not been updated (and will hopefully remain that way as an old revision).
Is there any way I can set the default options of one particular drawing that upon opening it will allways be opened "VIEW ONLY" & keep it as a rapid draft? To stop others loading the model etc.
dave
I have a drwing whose model has creeped through the system and been altered. Fortunately the drawings has not been updated (and will hopefully remain that way as an old revision).
Is there any way I can set the default options of one particular drawing that upon opening it will allways be opened "VIEW ONLY" & keep it as a rapid draft? To stop others loading the model etc.
dave






RE: Locking a Drawing
This is listed in the help file. Type "Rapiddraft" under the Index tab in the help and click on "convert".
Otherwise you can't save it to rapiddraft without opening it, updating it then saving it.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help
RE: Locking a Drawing
yeah this was what I had been endeavouring to do.
"Otherwise you can't save it to rapiddraft without opening it, updating it then saving it."
Basically it was an stuff up and the original model was altered - new version not created etc when it should have been.
I had hoped there might be a way to ensure it was only opened "view only" which still shows the correct info.
dave
RE: Locking a Drawing
Wanna Tip? FAQ731-376
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
RE: Locking a Drawing
http://www.bluebeam.com/4_1.asp
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help
RE: Locking a Drawing
As far as the PDF's go, I am a big fan of them. I don't believe CAD data is suitable to be published on a comany-wide basis. The PDF of a drawing is a published and controlled document, while the CAD data is treated like the negative of a photo, archived and protected, but not available for public use.
RE: Locking a Drawing
Am also a big fan of PDF documents too - think that will be my solution to lock it in place. Using PDF995.
But before that might go a huntin' for the back up files...we are a small company so we are all our own IT guys