Saving a Drawing in Another Format

Once a drawing file has been loaded and after it has been modified, you can change the name of the file using the SaveAs command. This command not only enables us to save a drawing file with a new name, but it can also save a drawing ino other formats, as shown in Figure 1.29.

Figure 1.29. You can save an AutoCAD 2000 drawing in one of the many DWG or DXF formats available.

These formats include earlier versions of AutoCAD (Releases 13 and 14) drawing files, the Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) files, and Templates files, which are discussed in detail in Chapter 2, "Drawing Setup."

There are occasions where you may ...

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