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238 History: Using DWG History to maintain a DWG audit trail

238 History: Using DWG History to maintain a DWG audit trail - AutoCAD Tutorial

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238 History: Using DWG History to maintain a DWG audit trail

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to take a look now at a feature that is fairly new in AutoCAD. I'm using AutoCAD 2021 for this particular tip and trick. And you can see, we've got a drawing there, which is 238_HISTORY and then DWGHistory.dwg. As you might've gathered, it's about the DWGHistory feature available in later versions of AutoCAD. Now, I want to show you a workflow and a process here. I'm not worried about the actual physical content of the drawing itself. So it's a fairly simple drawing with some fairly simple 2D geometry in it. Now the whole idea of the drawing is that you're going to have this at a particular version using drawing history to maintain a DWG audit trail. Now, my AutoCAD 2021 is connected to my Dropbox account. Now you can utilize things like OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox with the Drawing History command. And it's really useful because when I save back to Dropbox, AutoCAD will register that drawing history. It's really…

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