Saving your work

When you exit Allplan, all open drawing files will be 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 or layouts. For more information, see Using .bak files.

While you are working in Allplan, you can save your data manually or you can have the program do so automatically after a certain number of steps. Allplan saves the data in the current drawing file and in those that are open in edit mode. Certain actions (for example, switching to the Layout module) make Allplan save your work automatically.

Allplan will save the data when

• You switch to a different drawing file, fileset, layout or project.
• You switch to the Layout module.
• You export data from Allplan using Export.
• You save data manually by clicking Save (Default toolbar) or Save and Compress (File menu).
• "Save automatically" is active. You can activate this function and define the number of steps between saves in the Options on the Desktop environment page. Allplan will not save the data until you close the current tool.

  

Allplan does not compress the data when saving automatically or manually (using Save, Default toolbar). 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 are still 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 save data also compress the data.