Archive Current Drawing ( Drawing Editor )

Tool summary :

• Creates a copy of the last-saved version of your current drawing.
• Archived drawings can be created for member details and erection views and submaterials and detail sheets and gather sheets and erection sheets .
• The archived drawing is an exact copy of the your current drawing when it was first opened or last saved.
• You can archive as many drawings as you like.
• The file name of the archived drawing is "a number" followed by "_rev" and a "second number" (examples: 4_rev0 , 4_rev1 ). The "second number" serves as a relative time stamp: 4_rev0 was archived first, 4_rev1 was archived second.
• Open Archived Drawing will let you look at the archived drawing.
• See the step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

• Drawing Editor (where Archive Current Drawing is a tool)
• Archived drawing (topic)
• Base drawing (topic -- a base drawing is a type of archived drawing)
• Open Archived Drawing (to look at an archived drawing)
• Compare Drawings (to compare your current drawing with an archived drawing)
• Delete Project Items (utility to remove base and archived drawings from your current Job)

   Step-by-step instructions :

You might archive a drawing so that you can later look at the archived drawing ( Open Archived Drawing ) in order to see how it is different from your current drawing, and thus evaluate revision changes.

1 . Before beginning:

• In the Drawing Editor , open the member detail, 2D erection view or submaterial that you want to archive.
• If you make changes to that drawing, Save your changes if you want those changes to be included in the archived drawing.

2 . Invoke Archive Current Drawing as follows:

▸ Click the Archive Current Drawing icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' File ' and placed on the ribbon.

▸ Archive Current Drawing can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .

3 . Archive Current Drawing archives the last-saved version of your current drawing.