Models shared between project 'save as' versions?

[Bumbledoer]

While working on my model (which is inside a project) I constanly used 'Save Project As', thinking I always have previous versions of my model if I dont like the current edition.
Only now I realised that all project versions have the same version of my model. Is this how it should be? Maybe there is an option to have all models inside a prj file or smth?

[Bumbledoer]

Amazing! Not only I ruined the model i'm working on rn (a face), but also a previous face I used as a start...

[robcat2075]

If your model is saved externally from the PRJ  (i.e. "linked", not "embedded" in the PRJ) then that same model file gets over written with every PRJ save.

Yes, that is how it is intended to work, although I agree it is potentially confusing and or alarming if you don't understand that. "Embedded" is introduced on pg. 11 of the TECH REF.

Most PRJ assets* can be either Linked or Embedded. Embedded assets are saved in the PRJ files. Linked are merely file-path-referenced in the PRJ.

If you make a model from scratch in a PRJ it is embedded unless you save it out separately from the PRJ. Then it becomes Linked.

If you have imported a model into a PRJ, it will still be Linked unless you change its File Info>Embedded property to ON. Alternatively you can embed all assets* in a PRJ from the menu Project>Embed All

You can tell if an asset is Linked by the floppy disc icon over it in the PWS as is the case for "grid" in the below example.

 

 

*Note that Images and Sounds can never be embedded in the PRJ. They are always Linked and if you move a PRJ you must remember to move those assets with it.

[robcat2075]

I'll add that a handy A:M feature is Backup. Backup will save the entire state of your Project, even external assets, in separate folder.

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