Creo™ Schematics 4.0 Help Center > Working with Designs > To Open a Design
  
To Open a Design
1. Click or File > Open. The Open dialog box opens.
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When you click File a list of recently opened files appears at the right. Click a file name to open the design.
2. By default, Design, is selected. To open a different type of file, click the arrow next to Type and select an option from the list.
Design—Opens an existing design.
Design Template (*.rsdt)—Opens a template design.
Packed Design (*.rsd)—Opens a packed design.
Diagram (*.dge)—Opens a design exported from Diagram.
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3. Select the design and click Open. The design opens. When the design you have selected was created in a previous version of Creo Schematics, the Design Open dialog box opens.
Click Yes to upgrade the design.
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After the design has been upgraded, it will not open in an earlier version of Creo Schematics.