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Collaboration: DWG Compare, working with snapshots (AutoCAD 2020)

Collaboration: DWG Compare, working with snapshots (AutoCAD 2020) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Collaboration: DWG Compare, working with snapshots (AutoCAD 2020)

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to have a look now at the snapshot function available to you in the DWG Compare command. It's a really useful feature because within every snapshot that you create from comparisons of drawings, you can go to each comparison shown by the revision clouds as per the DWG Compare command. Now, that might sound a bit confusing. It's much, much easier if I take you through it. So we've got two drawings for you for this particular Tips & Tricks video. You can see them in the file tabs here. DWG001, DWG002. DWG001 has the circles and the hexagons. DWG002 only has the hexagons. So you can see where there's going to be a comparison. The two circles are only in one of the drawings. So make sure you've got DWG001 as your current tab up there, as your current drawing available and viewed on the screen. We then go up to the Collaborate tab on the AutoCAD ribbon and run the DWG Compare command like so. Now, you'll notice…

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