Saving and Backing Up Your Work
With regard to saving your work, OpenPlant PID saves each change to the active model in the open DGN file — that is, your drawing — as it is made. You need only "manually" save changes to DGN file settings.
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User preference settings are available to change OpenPlant PID ’s operation with regard to saving design changes and DGN file settings changes.
Note: If the preference Automatically Save Design Changes is on (the default) in the Operation category of the Preferences dialog, OpenPlant PID saves design changes automatically. You can control the frequency of automatic saves by setting the configuration variable MS_DGNAUTOSAVE in the Configuration Variables dialog (
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"Save As" and Backup
When you choose Save As from the File tab, you can save the open DGN file with a different name, in a different directory, on a different drive. OpenPlant PID also closes the open DGN file and opens the newly saved DGN file.
Tip: You can specify a different default so that keying in BACKUP creates a backup copy in a different directory, on a different drive, or even on a drive connected to a different system on your network. Here are some examples:
Any part of a file specification included in a BACKUP key-in overrides the corresponding part of MS_BACKUP.
To, by default | Set the configuration variable MS_BACKUP to |
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Save backups in the "/temp" directory | "/temp" |
Give backups the extension ".tmp" | ".tmp" |