Close Drawing is an AutoCAD extension that closes the currently active drawing.
You can choose to either:
- close the drawing without saving (discard changes), or
- save and close the drawing.
- Closes the drawing you are currently working in (the active drawing).
- Optionally saves the drawing before closing.
- If no drawing is open, it shows a message instead of doing anything.
- Make sure the drawing you want to close is the one that is currently active (the one you are looking at / working in).
- Decide whether you want to keep your latest changes:
- If you want to keep them, turn on Save file before closing.
- If you do not want to keep them, leave Save file before closing turned off.
- Open AutoCAD.
- Make sure a drawing is open and active.
- In the CloseDrawing task/settings, choose one of these options:
- Save file before closing = On (the drawing will be saved, then closed)
- Save file before closing = Off (the drawing will be closed without saving)
- Run the CloseDrawing tool.
After running the tool, you will receive a short message:
- AutoCAD did not have a drawing open/active.
- Open a drawing (or click into the drawing you want to make active) and try again.
- The action was cancelled before it finished.
- Try running it again.
- AutoCAD reported a problem while trying to close the drawing.
- Try these quick checks:
- Close any open dialog windows in AutoCAD and try again.
- Activate the drawing window and try again.
- If the issue persists, restart AutoCAD and try once more.
- The tool affects only the active drawing (the one currently selected).
- When Save file before closing is turned on, the drawing is saved to its current location/name.