Drawing Management - Autodesk AUTOCAD LT 2010 Tips And Tricks Manual

Drawing Management

AutoCAD LT 2010 contains several tools
aimed at increasing your productivity
when it comes to working with the whole
drawing file, including a new file format,
an updated Purge command, and more.
New File Format
The new file format used by AutoCAD
LT 2010 offers improved save times,
especially when saving files with lots of
annotative objects. It also accommodates
larger sizes for both individual objects
and the overall drawing file.
Object Size Limits
In previous versions of AutoCAD LT, no
single item (such as an mtext object) in
an AutoCAD LT drawing could be larger
than 256 MB. In AutoCAD LT 2010, the
object size limit has been increased to at
least 4 GB (depending on your system
configuration). This provides you with
more flexibility in working with large text
objects, tables, and overall large files.
These large objects, however, are not
backwards-compatible, so a new compat-
ibility option has been added to the
Open and Save tab of the Options dialog
box. When the box is checked, object size
limits from previous versions will be used
instead of the new, expanded limits.
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