Open a Project

General

  • A project is automatically opened, when you read a document belonging to the project from the archives.
  • You can activate the project while you create a new archive document.
  • Only one project is active at a time, even if several documents from different projects are open on the Vertex desktop.
  • The project connected to a model or drawing is activated at the same time you activate the archive document belonging to the project on the Vertex desktop.
  • When you create a new archive document (model or drawing), it is directed under the active project by default.

Open or activate a project

  1. Select Archives | Projects Open.
  2. Enter the project search data.
    • When defining search terms, you can use an asterisk (*) to replace several characters or a question mark (?) to replace a single character.
    • The search is case-sensitive, if you select Match case.
  3. Click OK to accept the search criteria
    • The program lists the projects matching the search criteria.
  4. Select a project from the list
    • Double-click a project or
    • Select a project and confirm by clicking OK.
    • The label of the active project appears in the top bar of the Vertex desktop.