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Access project files and drawings

Access project files and drawings

- [Instructor] We're starting another chapter now in our AutoCAD Electrical course and we're going to look now at working in a project on a day-to-day basis. So what you would do is you'd get into work, start up AutoCAD Electrical, and the first thing you'd do is get access to your project and your project drawings. So the first thing you do is go to the Project Manager, you'd go here to open the project, and you'd find your WDP file. Now, we've been through this before in previous chapters, and as usual, the Demo folder is available in the library for you to download. And you download this Demo folder here, and then when you go into your Project Manager, you go and find the wddemo.wdp file for the demo project. So I click on Open like so, and that will open up the WDDEMO project, and there it is there. So in order to access my drawings, I expand out the project, expand out any subfolders as well. And there's all my drawings there, so if I double-click on demo01, that drawing will now…

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