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How-to · CAD designs

Pick which design is on screen

Switch between open designs in a CAD session, or open one that is not open yet.

A CAD session has several design packages relevant to it, and you want a particular design visible.

1. Look at the tab strip above the viewer. Each open design is a tab there. Press a tab to bring its design to the front.
2. To open a design not yet on a tab, press the tab strip's + control.
3. Pick a design from the list. Each entry names a design. A line beneath it states how many parts it has and when it last built. It reads never built for a design with no build yet, and build failed when the newest build failed and left nothing earlier to show.
4. Press an entry to open it, or to switch to its tab if it is already open.

Switching tabs does not reload anything. A design stays mounted once opened, so its camera position and any shapes drawn on it are exactly as left when you switch back.

See Modes for what CAD mode is.