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New Project

Summary: Create a new project with the New Project Wizard.
New Project Wizard

Open Project

Summary: Browse to the *.wc6plf file in the project folder.
Open Project Menu

Save Project

Summary: Commit any unsaved changes to the project database.
Save Project

Save Project As

Summary: Save the project as a new name with the Save Project As wizard.

This function creates does the following:

  1. Creates a new project folder structure.
  2. Copies all project drawings to the new folder tree.
  3. Creates a new project database.
  4. If desired copies all project data into the new project database.

Save Project As

Frequently Used Folders

Open Project Folder

Summary: Opens a Windows Explorer window at the current project path.

Open Global Data Folder

Summary: Opens a Windows Explorer window at the global shared data folder.

Default XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\WireCAD\WireCAD6
Default VISTA/7: C:\Users\Public\Documents\WireCAD\WireCAD6

This folder and its subfolders contain shared WireCAD files and folders.
This folder may or may not be used depending on your Support Paths settings.


Open User Data Folder

Summary: Opens a Windows Explorer window at the current user application data folder.

Default XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\WireCAD\WireCAD6
Default VISTA/7: C:\Users\cbh\AppData\Local\WireCAD\WireCAD6

This folder contains your user specific WireCAD settings.


Close Project

Summary: Closes the current project.
Close Project

Convert Old Project

Summary: Converts older WireCAD projects to the new v6 format.
Covert Old Project

Security Tools

View Permissions Grid

Summary: Displays the current user's permissions grid. This is a read only display for informational purposes.
View Permissions Grid

Manage Security...

Summary: Manage users, groups and permissions if you have setup WireCAD to use Security.
Users, Groups and Permissions

Project Utilities

Pack Up/Check Out

Summary: Packs up an project for use on a different machine. It performs the following steps:
PackUp_CheckOut

Unpack

Summary: Unpacks the project and synchronizes the incoming global database with the current global database.

Unpack/Checkin

Check In

Summary: Checks in the project. This is similar to an unpack but must begin with an active project.

Unpack/Checkin

Project Info

Summary:Displays some basic project settings.

Project Info

Project Revisions

This page is not fully implemented!

Account Info

Summary: Add/Edit the Account Info. The Account is your customer information. This info can be accessed through the AccountInfoCollection for use in reports or via custom plugins.
Account Info

Application Setup

Summary:Configure basic application settings.
Application Setup Wizard

Settings

Command line shortcut: set
User Permissions Level: Varies
Product Level: ALL

Displays the Setup Dialog with the following Default panels (custom plugins can install other panels):

Exit

Command line shortcut: set
User Permissions Level: Varies
Product Level: ALL

Closes the application.