Saving and releasing drawings

After you have checked out a drawing as described in Routing a document in a workflow and edited it, you can easily finish working with the drawing from within AutoCAD using the single command Save & Release.

The command performs several actions for you:

• Saves your changes to the file in your Local Workspace.
• Closes the drawing in AutoCAD.
• Synchronizes your local workspace with the Meridian vault.
• Routes the drawing to the released state of its workflow. If the next state in the drawing’s workflow is not the released state, this action is not performed and you must route the document manually as described in Routing a document in a workflow.

To save and release a drawing:

• On the BlueCielo page of the ribbon in AutoCAD, select Save & Release . If the workflow transition that executes is configured to show any property pages for you to input additional information, they appear just as they would from within PowerUser.

Note    This command is not available on the BlueCielo menu or at the command prompt because it attempts to close the drawing, which prevents releasing it.

Note    If the current drawing is the parent in an assembly and the Releases the assembly document and all its references option is enabled as described in Setting actions options, only the current drawing is released. The other documents in the assembly must be released manually, if necessary.