If you are like me, having multiple drawings opened in AutoCAD at the same time. Then you’ve probably wondered if there is a way to save all the drawings at once without the need to switch to every single one of them and hitting Ctrl+S. This can be a very time-consuming task especially if you have bloated drawings with lots of unnecessary stuff on them. You can check our post about Slow Drawings! (5 Ways to Improve AutoCAD Performance).
To easily save all opened drawings with one command, before stepping away from the computer, type on the command line SAVEALL and hit Enter. That is it!
Note: If there happens to be an unnamed drawing opened (like drawing1 for example), you will be prompted to give that file a name.
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When to use it
Use SAVEALL whenever you work with several drawings open at once, for example a grading plan, its base survey and a few detail files. Run it before a break, before a long plot or batch job, or at the end of the day, so nothing is left unsaved in a tab you forgot about.
Tips and common mistakes
- Do not rely on SAVEALL if one of the open drawings is unnamed, such as Drawing1. AutoCAD will stop and ask for a file name, so the command will not finish until you answer.
- It saves the drawings you already have open, so a file you closed earlier is not touched. Check that nothing important is still waiting in another window.
- Heavy drawings take longer to save, so give the command a moment before you step away.
Related tutorials
Try it on your own drawing
TerraDraft Lite is free to download.
