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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How to Email and Publish an AutoCAD DWF file

In this tutorial, we will see a simple step to just How to Email and Publish an AutoCAD DWF file. One easy way is to export a DWF format using EXPORTDWF command and simply attached your DWF file to your email. Alternative way is clicking the icon red letter A, press the Export and choose DWF.

By this time is a step how to email and publish a DWF file in one process. The workflow is simple.

1) Pick a DWG file, right click and choose Publish and Email options. DWG file automatically open.

2) Under Specify a DWF file dialog, type the file name of DWF file and click the “Select” for saving.

3) The next surprise is your default email you are using, with the attachment of DWF file. If your client has no viewer. There is a note inclusion in that email. “To view the attached DWF file, download the free Autodesk Design Review from <http://www.autodesk.com/designreview>DWF and Autodesk Design Review - the ideal way to accurately share designs with your team!”

DWF file is as easy to navigate and much lighter than a PDF. A DWG in PDF file format with layers information it might be inconvenience. If you experience to open a PDF file with layer information it takes to slow the image or the content of the PDF.

Any ideas? Please free to comment, love to welcome to hear your sides.