Skip to main content

Starting a New Project

This tutorial teaches you how to start a new project.

You can start a project in any drawing in a folder.

Open drawing E-1.1.

Start the Project​

  1. Run the Start New Electrical Project command. The Start New Electrical Project dialog box will open.
    Ribbon: DM Electrical→Utilities→  Start New Electrical Project
    Pulldown Menu: DM Electrical→Start New Electrical Project

  2. Press the button to close the dialog box.

The project database will be created and initialized. This process takes a moment. Once it is complete, you are ready to start working on your project.

The project database is named dm_elec.dm. If you specify a Project Name, that is appended to the end of the file name. There can be only one project database in a folder. All of the drawing files in the folder share the same database.