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Allegro - Tip of the Week: Do you know that you can have your design autosaved at regular intervals?

PCBTech over 3 years ago

You can set the autosave feature in your design, which helps in saving your work periodically. The key variables to autosave the database are present under the File_management section in User Preferences Editor. You can open this using Setup > User Preferences.

autosave: Set to enable autosaving

This option must be set before starting the layout editor.

autosave_dbcheck: Set to run a quick database check before an autosave

By default, this option is turned off to save time. It requires a restart.

autosave name: Specifies the base name for the autosave file

The default name is AUTOSAVE. Do NOT provide a file extension. The layout editor will use the appropriate extension based on the type of database under edit. It requires a restart.

autosave time: Specifies the autosave intervals

The default time is 30 minutes. The minimum is 10 minutes, and the maximum is 300 minutes. It requires a restart.

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PCBDsgnr over 2 years ago

Can the location of autosave be set to a fixed path? For example, the design location is a far away network drive, a 100mb design will take long to save with every autosave, interrupting workflow. Could the autosave be set to a location on C drive?
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PCBDsgnr over 2 years ago

Can the location of autosave be set to a fixed path? For example, the design location is a far away network drive, a 100mb design will take long to save with every autosave, interrupting workflow. Could the autosave be set to a location on C drive?
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masamasa over 2 years ago in reply to PCBDsgnr

i think the autosaved files can be located at no other locations but in your working directory only. if u need the autosaved files to be found in the c drive, the working directory of your design needs to be in the c drive as well.
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