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The File menu (figure 4.1) contains the commands to manage your documents.
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Documents can be opened by double-clicking their icons on the desktop, by using the ’File/Open...’ command or by selecting from the ’File/Recent Files’ -menu (figure 4.2) which remembers the last files/drawings opened.
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It is also possible to open a drawing programmatically by giving the parameter on the command line.
-open filename
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New documents can be created by selecting the ’File/New’ command or by selecting a template from the ’File/Templates’ -menu, figure 4.3. The template menu displays a list of predefined drawings that contain presets and pre-drawn elements for such standard items as title blocks, frame and aligment marks etc.
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If you do not create a drawing from a template the next thing you propably want to do is to set the drawing size with the Settings/Document Size... -dialog, figure 4.4.
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The Window -menu (figure 4.5) has commands to to Maximize / Maximize All windows (you’ll really want to use full screen for drawing) and shuffle through open windows in sequence. In addition to this, it lists all the open windows/drawing, allowing easy access to all open drawings. This is the preferred way to move between drawings.
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The menu lists the open drawings in the order they have been opened, and this is also the order of cycling them. The current drawing, i.e. the one with the top most window, is marked with a check mark. An asterisk ’*’ in front of a file name indicates that the document contains unsaved changes.
obviously stores the document to its file, writing out any changes made. If the document has not been previously saved, it will prompt you for a file name and locaton. The command is only enabled if the document contains changes and this is thus an indication of whether or not you have touched the document contents in any way.
stores the document into a different file without touching the existing (if any) old disk file. It also changes the name of the open document so that any subsequent Saves go to the new file. You typically use this command to rename a document (however, if you need to get rid of the old file, you’ll have delete it manually).
saves a copy of the drawing as it is at the moment into a different file, without altering the name of the document. Any subsequent changes will go to the original file. You typically use this command to create a snap shot of a design for later reference, or maybe to have something to return to in case things turn nasty.
Figure 4.1: The File -menu
Figure 4.2: Recent Files -menu
Figure 4.3: The Template -menu
Figure 4.4: Document Size -dialog
Figure 4.5: The Window -menu