Chapter 29: Managing and Sharing Your Drawings

Whether you’re a one-person operation working out of your home or one of several hundred AutoCAD users in a large company, file sharing and file maintenance can become the focus of much of your time. In our interconnected world, the volume of messages and files crossing our paths seems to be on the rise constantly. In addition, the Internet has enabled us to be more mobile, adding yet more complexity to file-management tasks.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about some of the tools AutoCAD offers to help you manage your files and the files you share with others. You’ll also examine some general issues that arise while using AutoCAD in a workgroup environment. You may find help with problems you’ve ...

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