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Adding an Object to the Save Set
If you modify an object that was queried from an attached drawing, AutoCAD
Map 3D prompts you to add the object to the save set, which locks the object.
If an object is locked, other users cannot modify the object.
TIP Lock the objects before you edit them. This ensures that other users are not
modifying the same objects. To lock an object before editing, manually add the
object to the save set.
When you save changed objects back to attached drawings, only objects in
the save set are saved back.
NOTE You can set an option (page 763) to automatically add modified objects to
the save set without prompting, or you can turn the prompt off.
New objects are not automatically added to the save set. You must manually
add them to the save set.
NOTE This functionality is for drawing objects only. To save edits back to geospatial
feature sources, see
Checking In Features (page 693) and Updating Edits
Automatically
(page 698).
Additional Information
Keep these points in mind as you modify objects and add them to the save
set:
■ If an object is on a locked layer in the attached drawing or you are working
in the Layout tab, you cannot add the object to the save set.
■ If your system administrator has
enabled object locking (page 729), AutoCAD
Map 3D locks the objects in the attached drawing when you add the objects
to the save set.
■ By breaking a queried object into two pieces using the BREAK, TRIM,
FILLET, CHAMFER, or EXPLODE commands, you create both an altered
queried object and a new object. When you save back the objects, the
queried object is automatically saved back to its attached source drawing,
and the new object is automatically added to the save set. However, the
new object does not have an associated attached drawing; you must specify
the drawing to which it will be saved.
■ If you experience a system failure while objects are locked, use the Drawing
Maintenance command to
release the object locks (page 736).
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