https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109764#M17532 You can set your drawings to Manual update. Does that not cut it for you?<BR /> <BR /> Cheers,<BR /> Link. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:54:28 GMT Link 2006-10-13T07:54:28Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109763#M17531 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Now that with archicad 10 is not more possible to save views into .pmk format, which other file format is suggested to "freeze" a project state to a file that "i update only if i want"?</T></DIV> Thu, 25 May 2023 22:07:39 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109763#M17531 Anonymous 2023-05-25T22:07:39Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109764#M17532 You can set your drawings to Manual update. Does that not cut it for you?<BR /> <BR /> Cheers,<BR /> Link. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:54:28 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109764#M17532 Link 2006-10-13T07:54:28Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109765#M17533 Time-stamped project backups is another way. As is saved published pdf layoutt books. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:33:22 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109765#M17533 Thomas Holm 2006-10-13T08:33:22Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109766#M17534 <BLOCKQUOTE>Link wrote:<BR />You can set your drawings to Manual update. Does that not cut it for you? </BLOCKQUOTE> No, i want a file that is on my hard disk for future reference of what i made. Any view can accidentally be changed, a .pmk file not! Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:54:12 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109766#M17534 Anonymous 2006-10-13T15:54:12Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109767#M17535 <BLOCKQUOTE>Thomas wrote:<BR />Time-stamped project backups is another way. As is saved published pdf layoutt books.</BLOCKQUOTE> What are "Time-stamped project backups "? Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:56:13 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109767#M17535 Anonymous 2006-10-13T15:56:13Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109768#M17536 <BLOCKQUOTE>pgalante wrote:<BR /><BLOCKQUOTE>Link wrote:<BR />You can set your drawings to Manual update. Does that not cut it for you? </BLOCKQUOTE> No, i want a file that is on my hard disk for future reference of what i made. Any view can accidentally be changed, a .pmk file not!</BLOCKQUOTE> You can accidentally change a PMK... it's not that hard to do! Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:58:42 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109768#M17536 TomWaltz 2006-10-13T15:58:42Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109769#M17537 <BLOCKQUOTE>pgalante wrote:<BR />What are "Time-stamped project backups "?</BLOCKQUOTE> Nothing special. Hard disk space is cheap these days:<BR /> Save the project as a .pla (Archive file). Then zip the whole CAD folder of the project, including modules, exrefs etc, to an archive, named as the project with the date amended. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:59:07 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Documentation/I-want-to-freeze-a-state-of-a-project-like-pmk-was/m-p/109769#M17537 Thomas Holm 2006-10-13T17:59:07Z