Open a QY CAD document


  1. Choose Application menu→Open.

  2. On the Open tab, do one of the following:

    • Open one of the last documents you worked on by selecting it from the Recent Files list at the right side of the Open tab.

    • To browse to a document to open, click the Open command.

  3. In the Open File dialog box:

    1. Select the folder containing the document you want to open.

    2. To narrow the list of files to those of a certain type, set the Files of Type option.

      For example, you can select the Part documents (*.par) option to list only the files with the .par file name extension.

    3. Select the document to open from the list of documents.

      Note:

      If you do not see the document you want to open, make sure the drive, folder, and document type are specified correctly.

    4. (Optional) To open the document for viewing, select the Open as read-only check box.

      Documents opened as read-only display the Read-Only Document Status indicator in the graphics window and [Read-Only] is displayed the title bar. To learn more about read-only documents, see the help topic, Working with Read-Only documents.

    5. Click OK.

Tip:

If you do not know the location of the document, on the Open File dialog box, click the Search button and define search criteria to locate the document. To learn how to do this, see Find a QY CAD file. To learn about search capabilities, see Searching for documents.