Comparison of settings between drawings

Roger Greenwood

Hi,
I would like to compare the settings between 2 drawings to determine, for example, what has been changed (perhaps accidentally). I know I can force all the settings from a "good" drawing onto a "bad" one, but it would be better to get to the real cause.
I have tried exporting the settings to a CSV file and comparing (using winmerge) but it is cumbersome. Any better idea or utility?

Dan Wiseman

 Hi Roger,

I use some freeware called ExamDiff.  It has proved invaluable in helping me to ferret out that "rogue" setting difference between two drawings many a time.

Dan 

Roger Greenwood

Thanks Dan,
I tried ExamDiff and especially like the facility to only view the differences, but I think I will stick with winmerge as it looks nicer on the screen.
I have found one setting causing me a problem, now trying to track another one down. Would be very difficult to do this manually unless you had a very deep knowledge of all the SETVAR stuff (which I don't). Would be even better to have it integrated with Bricscad!