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Tom Rogers

Posted 02 October 2019 - 03:23 PM

Softplan saves files at certain time increments and saves them in a revision checkpoint and cache folder.  That is useful to use to find past files if they go missing or corrupt.  


Richard Rubinski

Posted 09 September 2019 - 07:34 AM

I'm with Tracy on this one.  I can manage my files in Windows, but have created one he**ofamess with my Softplan files.  I have files where I didn't expect them, tabs in one project where I thought I was saving to a new folder, all because Softplan doesn't save like the software I have used for the past 15 years:  AutoCad, DATACad, and Sketchup.  There's something different here, and I have spent many hours trying unsuccessfully to figure it out.

 

In my quest to learn this new and admittedly very powerful software, I am working my way through the "Drawing with Softplan" manual.  When I save my progress, Softplan conveniently updates my work to the current state.

 

However, I often wish I could go back in time to a previous step, but in order to do that I need to start all over again from page 1.

 

What I would like to do is to be able to save an entire project to a folder such as, "Drawing a House Tutorial to page 32"  or "Drawing a House Tutorial to page 43" so that by the time I finish the book I may have twenty or so folders and can restart at a certain page when I mess up a file, say at page 50 and want to restart at the previous saved file from page 43.

 

I would like to find a resource that can explain how to do that.

 

Thanks, 

 

Dale

Dale,

 

You could use File Save Project Revision. It would save it as Drawing a House Tutorial 1 and so on. Save it at any step you wish. You will find it in File Open and click on the Revision folder to find them.

 

 

Rick


Dale Mitchell

Posted 08 September 2019 - 05:54 PM

I'm with Tracy on this one.  I can manage my files in Windows, but have created one he**ofamess with my Softplan files.  I have files where I didn't expect them, tabs in one project where I thought I was saving to a new folder, all because Softplan doesn't save like the software I have used for the past 15 years:  AutoCad, DATACad, and Sketchup.  There's something different here, and I have spent many hours trying unsuccessfully to figure it out.

 

In my quest to learn this new and admittedly very powerful software, I am working my way through the "Drawing with Softplan" manual.  When I save my progress, Softplan conveniently updates my work to the current state.

 

However, I often wish I could go back in time to a previous step, but in order to do that I need to start all over again from page 1.

 

What I would like to do is to be able to save an entire project to a folder such as, "Drawing a House Tutorial to page 32"  or "Drawing a House Tutorial to page 43" so that by the time I finish the book I may have twenty or so folders and can restart at a certain page when I mess up a file, say at page 50 and want to restart at the previous saved file from page 43.

 

I would like to find a resource that can explain how to do that.

 

Thanks, 

 

Dale


Posted 10 May 2019 - 08:32 AM

did some filing yesterday and now program can't find file. with chief always saved to desktop, hope that works with softplan also.


Keith Almond

Posted 09 May 2019 - 06:00 PM

File management is more of a Windows function than a Softplan one.


Paul James

Posted 09 May 2019 - 03:48 PM

Look in help, I remember seeing something in the manual before.

Gary McKeon

Posted 09 May 2019 - 02:39 PM

Not that I know of. What is it you want to know specifically?


Posted 09 May 2019 - 02:24 PM

anyone know of any file management tutorials for softplan???


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