The New Project Dialog Box
Define the properties of a new project in the dialog box.
- Project use
- Select one of the following:
- Project id
- Enter a label for the new project, with an up to 16 character-long alphanumeric string. Some special characters are allowed in the label. In the label, the following characters are allowed:
- Project id, if the add-on feature DesignStream Interface is available
- When the DesignStream interface add-on feature is available to you, and you have logged into the DesignStream system, you can retrieve a label for a new project from the DesignStream system.
- Name
- You can type a descriptive name for the project in the text field. The name is not obligatory.
- Store in
- Select the project folder saving location from a list. The program will populate the list with all ms_volume entries in the ../user/SETUP file that contain a sub folder named "projects” in their directory path. The default saving location is defined in the ../user/SETUP file under the keyword project_ms. The keyword value should be an ms_volume definition.
- Based on
- A project can be based on a standard project (template), a project in the local archive or a project in the DesignStream system. All folders, databases and files are copied from the selected base project to the new project.
- Update Layer Scheme
- Changes may have been done to the layer scheme defined in the system settings, which have not been updated to the project on which the new project will be based on. By selecting Update Layer Scheme, you can reload the entire layer scheme from the system settings: layer names, visibility of layers and layer groups. In this case, the changes made to the settings of the layer scheme, for example new layer groups, will be updated to all drawings of the new project.
- Get project data card from
- If you are using a separate customer and order database, you can copy the project data card information from the system by clicking the Select button. Implementing this function requires customer fitting.
Note:
- You can also create a new project based on an existing project by saving the project under a new name. In this case, only the fields Project id, Name and Store in are to be filled out in the dialog box.