PLUGIN:DWG Diff

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Product Level: All
Displays the Drawing Differencing Tool


DWG Diff takes two similar drawings, referred to as A and B, and creates three other drawings:

  1. Shows items shown in A not B.
  2. Shows items shown in B not A.
  3. Shows items common to both.

Each derived drawing also shows the formatting tables of the drawing such as Layers, Text Styles, Dimension Styles, etc.


Menu Items

File>Open A: Open the A drawing.
File>Open B: Open the B drawing.

Tools>Calculate Differences: Does the work.

Compares the selected drawing space eg: Model or Layout.


View>Zoom Extents: Zoom the selected space to the extents of all entities.

Help>Help: Displays this file.
Help>Software Activation... : Displays the activation screen.
Help>About: Displays the about screen that show version information etc.


Right-click Context Menus

The following menus are available from all drawing spaces: