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The SAVEALL command of the Express Tools saves all open drawings, without closing them.

Choose Express ➪ File tools ➪ Save All Drawings. If a drawing hasn’t been saved, you are

prompted for a filename.

The DVD includes a small program,

savea.lsp, that automatically backs up your drawing to

the floppy drive after you’ve saved it on your hard drive. If you like to back up to a diskette

regularly for safety, this program can be useful. Look in

\Software\Chapter 01\Savea. The file con-

tains instructions for changing the drive to any letter you use, such as D:. (AutoCAD only.)

STEPS: Saving a Drawing for the First Time

1. The four lines you created earlier in this chapter should still be on your screen. Click Save on the

Standard Annotation toolbar. The Save Drawing As dialog box opens.

2. Click the Save In drop-down list. If necessary, choose the drive where you created your AutoCAD

Bible

folder for this book.

3. Double-click the AutoCAD Bible folder.

4. In the File Name text box, select the filename. Type ab01-01 and press Enter (or click Save).

5. Keep your drawing on the screen and go to the next exercise.

AutoCAD saves your drawing under the name

ab01-01.dwg. This numbering system will help you organ-

ize your drawings from this book and find equivalent drawings on the DVD more easily. It just means that

this is the first drawing from Chapter 1 of AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 Bible.

Closing a Drawing and Exiting from AutoCAD and

AutoCAD LT

You can close your drawing and keep AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT open. The simplest way to do this is to use

the drawing Close button just under the application Close button. You can also choose File ➪ Close.

You can choose Window ➪ Close All to close all open drawings. If any of the open drawings

have unsaved changes, AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT prompts you to save the changes. If you have

AutoCAD, you can choose Express ➪ File tools ➪ Quick Exit, which closes all open drawings (prompting you

to save if necessary) and then exits the program.

To exit AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT, click the Close (X) box at the top-right corner of your screen. You can

also exit out of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT by typing quit on the command line and pressing Enter. Another

method is to choose File ➪ Exit.

If you’ve made any changes to your drawing since last saving it, AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT asks you if you

want to save your changes. Choose Yes or No as your situation requires. Choosing Cancel returns you to

your drawing. If you have opened more than one drawing to which you have made changes, you have a

chance to save each drawing in turn so that you don’t exit AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT without saving all the

changes you’ve made in your open drawings.

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