How to Save AutoCAD Drawing as Read Only

How to Save Auto-CAD Drawing as Read Only – is quite a difficult way to answer. The only way to answer this question is by giving different options for the user to Save Auto-CAD Drawing as Read Only. Let’s see some of them below.

Save Auto-CAD Drawing as Read Only
Some of the different methods are listed below please choose which is appropriate in your case.

Method 1 – Use Save As Auto-CAD Drawing Files as DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format is a CAD data file format developed by Autodesk), by this method you actually prevent the user to make any changes to your drawing files. Making the Drawing as Read-Only Files

Method 2 – Ideally you could right click on the drawing file icon (once saved), go to properties and tick read only. Ahh, well that doesn’t “lock” the drawing or anything. they can still edit it, do a Save As, or simply unchecked the Read Only option for the file once they have it.

Method 3 – In case you are on a Network, you can request your Network Administrator to make a READ only Folder and put all the files into it – Eg., READ capabilities but not WRITE capabilities. that way it’ll never be altered, and the file can still be used for Inserting blocks. However, here if you use the explode blocks this will come back into action.

Method 4 – Although there are different ways to do a Read Only format, one simple method is to have your Auto-CAD Drawing converted into a PDF file, there by making all your Auto-CAD Drawings Read-Only Mode as you cannot edit the Pdf files and can open in a standard acrobat reader.

Method 5 –  Use Save As Auto Cad Drawing Files as DWF (Design Web Format), The sole purpose of DWF is to allow designers, engineers, project managers, and their colleagues to communicate design information and design content to anyone needing to view, review, or print design information – without these team members needing to know Auto-CAD or other design software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Web_Format


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Revit Structure- A Tool to Success

Revit Structure software is a building information modelling application for structural design, analysis, and construction documentation. It has a physical model with fully associated analytical model. Since it was launched, a lot of companies were using this program on their successful projects. But did you know it was originally developed by a start-up company called Charles River Software (founded 1997) - later renamed Revit Technologies. Autodesk successfully acquired Revit Technologies on April 2002.

One of the major advantages of Revit Structure is the use of true structural elements such as walls, columns, beams, slabs, trusses and parametric building model. All structural elements have a property which you can modify according to your design.

The physical model composed of structural components such as columns, slabs, beams, footing and braces. It drives the construction documentation as well as coordination for engineers and architects. The analytical model contains information that can be used in several leading third-party analysis applications, such as ETABS and RISA-3D. The analysis program then returns information that dynamically updates the entire physical model and therefore the documentation.

Figure 01: Showing some of the structural elements created in Revit Structure.

With Revit Structure, curve beam is easy to make, whether it is in a vertical or horizontal orientation. It has a sketch mode settings where you can make your curve beams easily - it is just like making a 2D line. Just hit finish sketch icon after sketching all the necessary elements and you can go to 3D view to check your model

Figure 02: Sample of curve structural element.

Every project has a detailed design stage, Revit Structure also provides materials for detailing, one is rebar which is often used as a reinforcement material in any concrete structure. Rebar sizes are available in tool options which allow the users to pick the desired bar size. Users can also draw their reinforcement detail in AutoCad and linked it into Revit drawing.

NOTE:

Since it is 3D, adding reinforcement into the drawing will make the project file quite heavy - users can’t work properly. Users need to have a higher capacity of the machine to work on this stage

Revit Structure is a 3D software, as a result, users can work in any of these views, switching between them as needed. Users can easily create their own views such as structural plan views fully associated with the corresponding levels. In a mouse click, automatic views are created from the model by just placing an elevation or section line on the floor plan. As the model progresses, Revit Structure automatically generates standard views including elevation and section views, and users can easily create their own 3D camera view of the building. Users can also alter the display of the elements in any view by choosing "wireframe,” "hidden line,” "shaded,” or "shaded with edges display.

Figure 03: Concrete structure in 3D view.