Activating & Archiving Projects

 

A list of recently active projects can be viewed in the “File” pull-down menu.

 

 

Alternatively, if you are going to be working with one project for a prolonged period of time you can go to your Tools>Preferences menu and tick the ‘Load most recent file’ option so that your project loads automatically every time you start the software. (For information on the other options see section 4.1)

 

  

 

 

 

You can click on the “Open project” icon on the toolbar or by clicking on the “File” > “Open Project…” item pops-up the “Project Browser” window:

 

 

When you want to copy a project to another folder or to an external drive, you should use “File” > “Save As” rather than attempting to copy files through Explorer. This ensures that all the data files in the sub-directories are created in the new location.

 

 

Archiving a project is used to compress the project for back-up purposes and also allows a model to be sent via email to colleagues or clients.  The VE project archives are in CAB format which are basically compressed folders containing the project data.  It is good practice to make regular CAB archives of your project so that you can freeze the model in its current state, make backups and recover projects than may have been corrupted.

 

To create a simple archive of the currently loaded project use :

“Archive>current project” from the menu

 

or click the highlighted icon  on the generic toolbar.

 

A window will then open asking where you wish to save the *.cab file. You can select the name of the .cab file at this same time.

 

 

You can also create an archive of any project at any time by selecting “File” > “Archive” > “Create Archive” and then selecting the *.mit (ModelIT) file of the project you wish to select in the pop-up window.

 

In order to extract an archive you must select “File” > “Archive” > “Extract Archive” and in the pop-up window that appears, select the *.cab file of interest, click “Extract (Browse)” and then choose the desired location of the project. The project can then be opened in the normal manner. “Extract to Folder” extracts the model to the same folder as the .cab file.