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So I'm going to go ahead and skip that and select Finish. If I select Next, here's where I would have an option to enter libraries, but they're a little more advanced and we don't need them. (typing) I'll hit Enter, and it creates the folder, and now when I select Okay, you can see it's called Project Files, you can see it's called Practice Files, and I have a folder on my desktop called Practice. I can select Desktop, and then I can make a new folder, and I'll call it Practice. To do that, I simply click the Browse for Project Location button at the end of the dialogue. But this isn't where I want these files, I actually want to place them in a Practice folder on my desktop. And as I type you can see that the project folder location was updated as well. So in this case, we're going to go ahead and create a Practice Files project. We'll hit Next, and now we can name and locate that project. Now vault projects are more for a team, collaborative environment, so we're going to stick with a single user project. And now we're asked if we want a single user project or a vault project. We're going to go ahead and skip that now, and just simply hit New. We can find out if there's libraries of any kind attached to it, basic metadata about the project. It's a single user project, here's where it's located. Now we're not going to go into all of this, but it basically lays out some basic information about the project. Now, in this dialogue box, you'll also notice the projects that we saw on the dashboard, but you'll see additional information. It's a nice way to keep your test files all centrally located. Anytime you're not using this course, and you just want to practice in Inventor, this is where you can store your files. Now what we're going to do here is simply create a project that you can use for practice.
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In order to create a project, we need to go to the Getting Started tab under the launch panel, and select Projects. On the dashboard, we have the ability to switch between projects quite easily, but you can't create projects from within this section of the dialogue box. Project files tell Inventor where to store files and where to look for files, while you're designing. We're now ready to look at project files.