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On Autodesk Structural Bridge Design startup, the Structural Bridge Design Home will be displayed, unless starting the application from a double click on a model file.

If you are already running the application and working in a model, click the first button on the Main Menu toolbar (or Ctrl-D) which will take you to the Home screen. This will not close the active model.

Home menu item

To switch back to the active model and you can go back with no loss of data using the ESC key or the top left back button.

Home menu back

Models can be opened from the recent files grid, together with actions to sort, remove files and more described below.

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Open

Click this button to browse and Load existing data files from your local system or a mapped network drive.

New

New From Existing (use drop down arrow)

Create From Template (use drop down arrow)

Refer to the New Data topic for details of the above 3 commands.

Online Help

Displays this product documentation.

Community Forum

Go to the Structural Bridge Design Forum to share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular topics.

Recent Files Grid Header

Click on a header row caption to sort the grid in ascending order by that column. Click again to sort in descending order. Ctrl-click to remove sorting of the column. Columns can be resized.

The wheel icon button on the rightmost column gives access to the following options:

Command	Description
`Unsort`	Removes grid sorting
`Refresh`	Updates the recent file list. The list is always updated on startup but external file changes are not reflected whilst the application is running.

Recent Files Grid

All the information shown in the grid is read only.

Click on a file name to open that model. Only one model can be opened at a time.

Click the ellipses or right click on a row in the grid to get some more file management options:

Command	Description
`Open File Location`	Open File Explorer at path containing file.
`Duplicate`	Open a copy of the file as a new project.
`Remove From Recent Files`	Remove the file from the recent files list. (This does not delete the file.)
`Delete`	Delete the file from disk and remove from list following a confirmation prompt.

Note: Read only files are shown with a lock icon overlay.