User Guide
Design Manager Functions
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Design Manager Functions
The following describes Design Manager functions and
activities:
General characteristics
• availability for use without other Orcad programs
running
• automatic categorization of design-related files, sorted
into file-type categories, within a workspace
• ability to have multiple workspaces, in their own
windows, open simultaneously
• two methods (view by Category and view by Name)
with which you can view and manage all files within
a selected workspace, as well as external references to
files outside the selected workspace
File management
• copy, move, and delete all files (or optionally a
selected sub-set), from one workspace to another
• optionally cut, delete, copy, and archive all dependent
files
• cut, delete, copy, and paste files as similarly done in
Windows Explorer
• drag-and-drop functionality
• acceptance of files from Windows Explorer, through
commands or drag-and-drop
• ability to create top-level folders in Windows Explorer
from Design Manager