got an email from the contractor to move the two underground tanks to the "east side of the lot", so I spend about 45 minutes drafting the revs.
Then the phone rings and he says,"The owner wants to leave the tanks in the same place and just add another island"
Well I still had the PDF file showing the original configuration but the autocad file was already revised. Ugh!
Well I just clicked the back-button about 300 times and got back my original drawing!
> got an email from the contractor to move the two underground tanks to the "east side of the lot", so I spend about 45 minutes drafting the revs.
>
> Then the phone rings and he says,"The owner wants to leave the tanks in the same place and just add another island"
>
> Well I still had the PDF file showing the original configuration but the autocad file was already revised. Ugh!
>
> Well I just clicked the back-button about 300 times and got back my original drawing!
Did you already save? YOu could of done "save as" and changed the name and you have the original back and the revised.
Scott
I save every few minutes (ctl-s) because of frequent power outages. Usually I save a copy of a file before revising, but I had clear instructions to move the tanks.
It always helps to have some backup plan.
Mine is that when I have completed a drawing I copy the final product and move it to an obscure corner of the screen and change everything to a one color layer (final).
Then the original drawing is still there.
Revisions are lined up along and under the original and my working drawing is still in the same place with all pt numbers and all other layers of info.
> Mine is that when I have completed a drawing I copy the final product and move it to an obscure corner of the screen and change everything to a one color layer (final).
>
> Then the original drawing is still there.
>
> Revisions are lined up along and under the original and my working drawing is still in the same place with all pt numbers and all other layers of info.
I'm sure that system works fine for you, but it makes me shudder to think of it. I'm of the "model space is real space" school, in which entity coordinates correspond to ground coordinates. (I do make exceptions for details, though.)