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📁 Cadify Menu: File

The File menu in the Cadify AddIn for SolidWorks provides all essential commands for managing your CAD projects, including saving, opening, publishing, and closing models.

Main Actions

🆕 Create Raw

  • Purpose: Start a new raw (unpublished) CAD project and save it to the cloud.
  • How: Choose "Create raw" to create a blank or template-based model.

📂 Open Raw / Open Published

  • Purpose: Open existing projects from your "raw" (editable) storage or published (store-ready) products.
  • How: Select either "Open raw" or "Open published" and pick from your available products.

💾 Save / Save Copy as Raw

  • Save: Saves changes to your current project.
  • Save Copy as Raw: Saves a duplicate of your project as a new raw product, useful for versioning or branching designs.

🛒 Publish

  • Purpose: Make your product available for online sales/customization.
  • How: After validation, publish your design directly to your web store catalog.

🗑️ Delete Raw(s)

  • Purpose: Remove unwanted raw projects.
  • How: Select multiple raw products to delete from your cloud storage.

❌ Close

  • Purpose: Closes the current project, with prompts to save changes if needed.

Quick Tips: - Login is required for saving, opening, or publishing products. - The cloud icon indicates actions that interact with your online storage. - Publishing a product will validate your project before it goes live.