{"id":4881,"date":"2026-04-07T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:19:09","slug":"lock-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/lock-up\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use the LusoCAD Express Tool: Drawing Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4881\" class=\"elementor elementor-4881\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a51178f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a51178f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0c5e1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"d0c5e1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=WxW45Ao9a0U&quot;,&quot;show_image_overlay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;image_overlay&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:&quot;url&quot;},&quot;lazy_load&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2326305 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2326305\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><style>\na {\n    text-decoration: none;\n    color: #464feb;\n}\ntr th, tr td {\n    border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\n}\ntr th {\n    background-color: #f5f5f5;\n}\n<\/style><\/p><div><h2>What is Drawing Lock and why should it be used?<\/h2><p>In some situations, a draughtsman needs to share drawings with other people, while preventing the content from being altered. The <strong>Drawing Lock<\/strong> \u00e9 uma Express Tool \u00fatil do <strong>LusoCAD<\/strong> which helps protect your work by converting the entire drawing into a single block.<br \/>Once locked, the drawing cannot be exploded or edited, which prevents other users from modifying the original objects. In this way, Drawing Lock is an effective solution for safeguarding your project when sharing files.<\/p><\/div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div><h2>How to access the Drawing Lock tool<\/h2><p>There are two ways to access the Drawing Lock tool in LusoCAD:<\/p><h3>From the menu:<\/h3><p>Access <strong>Express &gt; Drawing &gt; Drawing Lock<\/strong>, as shown in the figure below.<\/p><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem.png\" alt=\"Drawing Lock\" width=\"800\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem.png 1090w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-1024x346.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-18x6.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><ol><li><p><strong>Using a command:<\/strong><br \/>Write <strong>LOCKUP<\/strong> on the command line and press Enter, as shown in the figure below.<\/p><\/li><\/ol><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4888 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-2.png 333w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-2-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-2-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p><div><h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to use Drawing Lock<\/h3><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After starting the Drawing Lock command, a dialogue box will be presented.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-1.png\" alt=\"Drawing Lock \" width=\"767\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4887 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-1.png 767w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-1-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-1-18x5.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next, you will be asked to select objects.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem.jpeg\" alt=\"Drawing Lock\" width=\"185\" height=\"77\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4889 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/imagem-18x7.jpeg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Select all objects in the current drawing that you want to lock, then press Enter to confirm.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Important notice:<\/strong><br \/>Make sure you save the drawing before using Drawing Lock, as the drawing cannot be modified once it is locked.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some situations, a designer needs to share drawings with other people while preventing changes from being made to the content. Drawing Lock is a useful Express Tool in LusoCAD that helps protect your work by converting the entire drawing into a single block.<br \/>\nOnce locked, the drawing cannot be exploded or edited, which prevents other users from modifying the original objects. In this way, Drawing Lock is an effective solution for safeguarding your project when sharing files.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luso-cad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}