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Updated v2.4.4At a glance
- Grid and mesh view toggles mirror the View menu and persist across sessions
- An Import / Export row above Layers: Print, Import From File, Import From Drafting, Export, Send To
- Fit command frames everything visible on visible layers
The Design sidebar has three sections: a View block on top, an Import / Export row, and the Layers list below them. It's deliberately small — Design has no feature tree to browse, so the panel only holds what you toggle or reach for while working.
View toggles
Grid and Meshes are pill toggles wired to the same state as the View menu, so flipping one updates the other. Grid shows the reference grid (styled to match the Drafting sketch grid); Meshes turns on the filled cut-part preview described in palette-driven layers. Both settings persist across sessions on your machine, overriding whatever a document was saved with, so the workspace comes back up the way you left it.
Import / Export
Everything Design can take in or put out sits in one row, rather than being scattered through the File menu:
- Print… — print your artwork at 1:1 or fit to a page.
- Import From File — DXF, SVG or a raster image, the same as File → Import.
- Import From Drafting — pull a sketch in with its layers intact.
- Export… — write the design out as DXF or SVG.
- Send To… — push the design to Plasma, Laser, Router or Oxyfuel with a quantity.
It's the same section, in the same style, that Drafting sketches have, so the two workspaces read as one program.
Fit
The Fit tool (F, also on the ViewCube strip and in the View menu) frames every visible shape
on every visible layer. Hidden layers are excluded, which makes it a quick way to zoom to just the
part of a design you're working on: hide everything else, hit F.
Layers
The Layers section lists only layers that shapes actually use, each with its color swatch, name, and an eye visibility toggle on the right — the active layer row is marked, matching the highlighted swatch in the bottom palette. Rename, recolor, and per-layer export all happen from the row itself; see palette-driven layers for how layers are created and assigned in the first place.