Comparing Drawings

Edit › Tool › Measure and Inspect › Compare With… compares the drawing you are working on with another drawing file: a customer's revised version, last week's copy, a design before and after its sizes changed. Choose the other file and a picture shows the two drawn over one another, with the labelled variables whose values differ. Nothing in either drawing is changed.

A carton compared with a larger copy: the lines that moved, those only in each, and the variables that differ

What it shows

Each line of both drawings (as they would open, parts and blocks included) is matched with the other's:

Colour	What it means
Grey	The same: in both, where it was.
Amber	Moved: the same shape on the same layer, somewhere else.
Red	Only in this drawing: taken out in the other.
Green	Only in the other: added in the other.

A line drawn the other way round counts as the same. Lines are matched to 0.01 mm. Under the picture, Variables that differ lists each labelled variable whose value isn't the same in both, or that only one of them has (shown as –).

The counts are written in the Interactive window too.