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Project file introduction

Project file introduction - Inventor Tutorial

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Project file introduction

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- We're now ready to look at what project files are. Project files are Inventor's way of organizing files that you're gonna create in the system. They're essentially just folders on the hard drive that help Inventor understand where files are placed. Right now on the dashboard in the Projects section, you can see the four projects we have created, and you can see that the Inventor Essentials course project file is active, indicated by this green check mark. Now from within this dashboard, you have the ability to look at other projects by left-clicking on any of those items, which will update the right-hand side to show you information, or you can click on the right side of that, on the check box to change the active project. The one thing you can't do is create projects or delete projects from here. The projects represented here are just a view into the overall project system. To create a project you need to go to the Get Started tab under the Launch panel and select the Projects…

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