dbarc Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 This has bugged me since version 11 of AutoCad. You open ten architectural drawings to look at them and when you try to close them all down, autocad prompts you to save the changes. So you say no to all of them because all you did was zoom in and accidentally close down your model file without saving at the same time! So my question is - Does anyone know of a way to make AutoCad/ADT ignore zooming and panning as changes to a drawing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigroo Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 What a good question. I'm sorry that I can't contribute to the answer right now, (even though I am looking into for you) this is something that has bugged me forever. It would be useful to know for ACAD and others as Max doesn't ask you for your approval on exiting the same drawing or C4D, Rhino does too though. It would save time to exit quickly. I'll be keeping a close eye on any possible answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrie Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Autocad detects change, but not intelligently. That should be something easy for the programmers to work on, surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarc Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 From my limited research, I have established there's a system variable (of course there is - this is autocad) called DBMOD which returns different values depending on the type of change you make. 4 = view changed. However, it doesn't do anything useful with this detailed info. Basically if DBMOD is greater than zero, it asks you to save your changes, which as you say Audrie isn't very intelligent! I'm hoping there's a script that can be run to the effect that if DBMOD=4, no need to save.. but I've yet to find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allbad Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 This bugs me as well. No answer, just 2c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarc Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 Ah well at least there's some moral support out there even if no solutions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spongebob Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 I think the best work around is in stead of zooming and panning try pulling your monitor closer to your face to zoom in, slide it side to side to pan. That should do the trick ;-) Jeffrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarc Posted November 5, 2005 Author Share Posted November 5, 2005 I think the best work around is in stead of zooming and panning try pulling your monitor closer to your face to zoom in, slide it side to side to pan. That should do the trick ;-) Jeffrey Unfortunately I 'zoomed in' rather too enthusiastically and can no longer have any children.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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