Opening Files

To edit or view a Designer file, you first open, or load, the file using the Open command in the File menu (keyboard shortcut CTRL+O).

To change folders, point to the folder containing the document that you want to open and double-click the left mouse button. The file names in the folder appear at the left.

You also can type the directory name separated with backslashes. For example, type C:\Designer\Drawings and press ENTER.

To quickly scroll to a specific filename, you can click the File Name list and type the first character of a filename. The list jumps to the first file beginning with that character.

Each time you choose the Open command in the File menu, the Open dialog box recalls the most recently used drive and directory.

When you open a DRW document with multiple pages, you receive a dialog box asking how you want to open the document.

• If each page in the original document contains a separate drawing, click Split Up Pages. Designer retains the contents on multiple pages as they were in the original DRW file.
• If a large drawing spans several pages in the original document, click Enlarge Document. The entire drawing is loaded as a single-page drawing. The page size is enlarged to include all of the used pages of the original drawing.

You can also copy, rename, delete, and search for files from the Open dialog box.