AutoCAD asks about saving changed when closing a drawing

[Anonymous]

I open a drawing, zoom in and out to view it. When closing it, AutoCAD asks whether I want to save changes. I did not make any changes, just viewed it. How to avoid that question?

[pendean]

If you do anything in the file, anything, the program will ask you to save it. No way around it.

Open your file with a free viewer instead http://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers

Or create a CLOSE-NO-SAVE macro button to click on when you want to close a file without saving it https://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/520/11526/1/AU09_SpeakerHandout_CP214-1.pd...

[Anonymous]

But I did not do anything, I just viewed the drawings.

Vaclav

[pendean]

you did indeed do something: you changed the content location by zooming around.

This is not a semantics game, just AutoCAD reality. It makes little sense for most of us but it is what it is. Go get a viewer if you just want to look at files instead.