Dealing with autosave

[BlakeBunn]

Hello,

i am new to autocad as of this year. I have been teaching myself how to use it as i go. I am using autocad 2016 and have some changes I want to make to how i save. Ideally, I want it to save over my drawing rather than create a backup. I have heard of a way to change it so that when I run a common command it will save after this command completes. How do you set this up?

Thanks

[paullimapa]

I don't know of a buil-in AutoCAD command that will execute a Save command automatically without actually using the Save/QSave/SaveAs commands.

There is an AUTOSAVE command that will implement an automatic save based on a time interval.  Read up on this process using the On-line Help.

You can turn off the backup copy creation by setting the ISAVEBAK system variable to 0.  Though I would strongly advise against this in case the drawing file become corrupted during a save, you have no way to go to a backup file to recover.

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[leothebuilder · Accepted solution]

I would not rely on autosave.

The only sure way to save your drawing file is to use the Save or the QSave command, and to use it frequently.

I would also keep the backup files (the .bak files)

You can redirect the backup files to a specific folder that you can delete at regular intervals.

When you use the Save or QSave command once it will update the .dwg file.

Using it a second time will update the .bak file.

[BlakeBunn]

I cant seem to get in the habit of saving and was hoping there was a way to add it to a command such as my -purge script in my tool pallets 

[paullimapa · Accepted solution]

You can always add the QSAVE command to the end of your Purge Script

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[BlakeBunn]

this is the command i am using 

-PURGE;ALL;*;N;;R;*;N;^C^CAUDIT;Y;

would i edit it to look like this?

-PURGE;ALL;*;N;;R;*;N;^C^CAUDIT;Y;QSAVE;

[paullimapa]

yes.

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[steve216586 · Accepted solution]

Simply go to the Express Tools tab. Once there you will find Command Alias. In there you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the QSAVE command. I use a letter which I hardly ever use and double it. QQ = QSAVE. A simple double tap now and then, and I know I have saved my drawing without relying on Autosave.