Saving your work

When you exit Allplan, all open drawing files are saved automatically. You do not need to save your data explicitly (like in other programs) prior to exiting Allplan. Exception: NDW-format files have to be saved manually.

In certain circumstances, Allplan makes backup copies of your drawing files and/or layouts. For more information, see Using .bak files.

While you work in Allplan, you can save your data manually as well as have the program do so automatically after a certain number of steps. The data in the current drawing file and in those that are open in edit mode is saved. And when you perform certain actions (e.g. switching to the Layout module), the program automatically saves your work, too.

The following actions cause the data to be saved:

• When you switch to a different drawing file, fileset, layout or project.
• When you switch to the Layout module.
• When you export data from Allplan using Export.
• When you save data manually by clicking Save (Default toolbar) or Save and Compress (File menu).
• When saving automatically. You can activate this function and define the number of steps between saves in the Options, Desktop environment page.

  

Saving automatically or manually (using Save, Default toolbar) does not cause the data to be compressed; in other words, the document size will not be smaller although you have deleted data. The reason for this is that the data you have deleted is still available in the memory so that you can redo the deleted data even after saving. To compress the data when you save manually, use Save and Compress. All the other actions that cause data to be saved also compress the data in question.