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Content: Using DWG Compare

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From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Content: Using DWG Compare

- [Instructor] We're going to start another AutoCAD tip and trick today, and what we're going to look at is one of the newer commands available to you in AutoCAD, and it's called Drawing Compare or DWG Compare, and it's a really nice command that allows you to compare the properties of two drawings next to each other. So for this particular video, we've got two drawings in the library for you, DWGCompare001 and DWGCompare002. Make sure you download both of them from the library and open them both up in AutoCAD. Now, bear in mind this is an AutoCAD 2019 command. It's not available in previous versions of AutoCAD, just so you know. Now, we've go the two drawings open, and as you can see, there's Compare001 and Compare002, and you can see the two file tabs at the top of the screen there just under the ribbon. So I've got the two drawings open, and the Drawing Compare command is on the View tab on the ribbon, right over here on the right-hand end. So there's DWG Compare there. So all I've…

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