Opening and saving QY CAD documents

The Open command opens existing documents. QY CAD keeps track of the documents you worked on last, so you can open them quickly. These documents are shown in the Recent Files list on the Open page of the Application menu. Just click the name of a document in the list to open it. You set the number of documents displayed in the list in the QY CAD Options dialog box.

Here are additional options for opening documents:

• Open documents from Windows Explorer. You can do either of the following:

  • Open a document by double-clicking its name.

  • To control how a document is opened, right-click its name and choose Open As. Configure the options of interest, and then click Open. For more information, see Open File dialog box.

• Drag your design from Windows Explorer or Hosted Active Workspace onto the QY CAD start page to open it in QY CAD.

• When a document is already open, you can drag a document onto the ribbon to open the document.

• When an assembly is open, dragging a document into the graphics window performs the Insert Component command.

There are some options on the Open File dialog box that pertain only to specific types of QY CAD documents.

When opening draft documents, for example, you can specify that the file opens in inactive mode for viewing and printing. To learn more, see Opening and saving draft documents.

You can use the options on the Open File dialog box to improve performance when opening a large assembly document. For example, you can choose to hide or inactivate components or to open simplified representations of assembly parts. To learn more, see Working with large assemblies efficiently.

When you use the Open command to open a managed document, the document is checked out and copied to the local cache. Options on the Open File dialog box let you specify which revision of the document you want to open. To learn more about opening managed documents, see Opening and saving Teamcenter-managed documents.

In QY CAD, the availability of a document is displayed in the Open File dialog box. The availability is read-write or read-only. You can choose to open a document as read-only by selecting the Read-Only check box on the Open File dialog box. Then you have the additional option of opening just the first level of the document as read-only or all levels of the document as read-only. You can save the setting and automatically open all documents as read-only by clicking Save As Default when you have the Open Read Only check box selected.

You can also use the operating system to set a document to read-only. For example, using Windows Explorer, you can set a document's properties to read-only. This setting overrides the available status assigned in QY CAD. If a document has an available status, but has been set to read-only in the operating system, then you will not be able to get write access to the document.

To learn more about documents with read-only privileges, see Working with read-only documents.

The Search button on the Open File dialog box allows you to search for documents. You can search any folder, network drive, or managed location. You can search for documents using defined properties or a number of criteria, including mathematical operators and standard Boolean expressions. For a list of valid expressions, see Search criteria list. To learn more, see Searching for documents.

When you first save a new document, QY CAD provides a default name and folder location. You can give the document a meaningful name and specify where you want to store the document on the disk. You can quickly save changes to an open document by clicking Save on the Application menu.

When you open a document that was not created in QY CAD, such as an AutoCAD .dwg or .dxf file, or a Pro/E part or sheet metal file, a translation wizard runs automatically to import the file into the appropriate QY CAD environment, whether that is Part, Sheet Metal, Assembly, or Draft. To learn more about the types of files you can open, see Opening non-QY CAD documents.

For some input formats, there are translation options you can set. For a list of the available translation-option dialog boxes, see Open command.