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Work with Drawing Files over the Internet
You can open and save drawings to an Internet location, attach externally
referenced drawings stored on the Internet, and review files online using
AutoCAD WS.
Open and Save Drawing Files from the Internet
The file input and output commands recognize any valid Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) path to a DWG file.
You can use AutoCAD LT to open and save files from the Internet. The
AutoCAD LT file input and output commands (OPEN, EXPORT, and so on)
recognize any valid URL path to an AutoCAD LT file. The drawing file that
you specify is downloaded to your computer and opened in the AutoCAD LT
drawing area. You can then edit the drawing and save it, either locally or back
to any Internet or intranet location for which you have sufficient access
privileges.
If you know the URL to the file you want to open, you can enter it directly in
the Select File dialog box. You can also browse defined FTP sites or web folders
in the Select File dialog box.
Share Drawing Files Internationally
Beginning with AutoCAD 2007-based products, drawing files and most files
associated with drawing files use the Unicode standard. This lets you maintain
both the visual fidelity and data integrity of international characters when
you save and open drawing files.
NOTE AutoCAD 2006-based products and prior releases were not Unicode
applications. When sharing drawings with earlier, non-Unicode, versions, use ASCII
characters to ensure compatibility when you save files, insert xrefs, and specify
folder paths.
Overview of Unicode
All characters are processed numerically by the computer operating system,
which assigns a number to each character. Various numeric encoding systems
have been used in the past, however these encoding systems often conflicted.
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