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Help please!! Closing drawings without saving..

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I need to close a drawing without save the changes but i don't want that the dialogue box: " Save changes to: c:\my drawing.dwg" appear in my screen.
it's possible deactivate such dialogue box?
It's possible close a drawing that was changed and discard the changes directly without the dialogue box?

Thanks in advance for any help, and i apologize by my awful english.
 
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It would be it dangerous to get rid of this warning.
I often open a drawing to look at possible design change for a similar part and will save the changes to a new number or not save the changes at all if I do not like what I see. I would hate to accidentally delete the changes I want to save.

My advice is if someone gives you a way to do this - DON'T.

P.S. - Don't worry about your english. We've seen much worse.

Regards,
Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
 
Thanks for the advice.

You are right, most of the time is dangerous to get rid of this warning but i'm developing an application that will be used for rookies and some maps of the systems are very importatnt and i don't want that the rookies can save changes in this drawings but i want that thay can see this maps, for that reason is that i want to get rid of this warning and discard any changes without asking to the user.

I would appreciate if someone can tell me if this is possible or have any idea to solve my problem.

Thanks in advance and thanks again Steve for the advice.
 
In that case, why don't you make the files "Read-Only" access. This way your rookies will have to do a "Save-AS" to save the changes.

Good Luck,
Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
 
Or instead of using ACAD at all, use Autodesks viewer software. It's called volo-view. They can look at the dwgs, even redline 'em, but they can't mess them up.
 
Enough........

(defun nodia()
(command "undefine" "quit")
(defun c:quit()
(command "_.quit" "y")
)
)

You can use the same type syntax for all the commands where a person might save a drawing, ex. save, qsave, end ... etc...

 
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