Saving your work

Now save the lamp as a new file.

It is always important to save your work at each stage. However, to safeguard the files in the CourseWare project, it is write-protected. You cannot save any new work in the CourseWare project.

To save your work you must create a project directory. Project directories are special directories created by Alias that allow you to efficiently store all the files related to a specific project together.

Saving your work in a Windows environment

Choose File > Save As .
The File Browser opens.
Click the arrow next to the Project field and choose New Project from the menu.

A new project is created which is immediately displayed in the File Browser.
Click the Up 1 level button to move up one directory. This is the user_data directory that contains all the projects, including the new_project.
Click the on the new_project directory and choose Rename from the menu.
Type Lessons and press (Windows) or (Mac).
Click the arrow next to the Project field and choose Set Current to make Lessons the current project.

The wire directory of the Lessons project is now displayed in the File Browser.
In the Object name field, type mydesklamp and press .

Alias saves the file mydesklamp.wire in the Lessons project.

TipIt is good modeling practice to save often as insurance against having to start from the very beginning if you make a mistake.

Saving your work in a Mac OS X environment

Choose File > Save As .
The File Browser opens.
Click Create and in the Name of new Project field, type the project name Lessons.
Click Create.
A new project is created which is immediately displayed in the File Browser.
In the Save As field, type mydesklamp and press .

Alias saves the file mydesklamp.wire in the Lessons project.

TipIt is good modeling practice to save often as insurance against having to start from the very beginning if you make a mistake.