There is no good way to organize your projects in Design Space. There is no folders option. There is no way to download your Design Space Projects - the best you can do is take a screen shot.
This can lead to a lot of clutter and chaos, if you use your machine regularly. Especially if you save every single project.
For instance, today I am cutting some simple text to label folders, organizing my craft space. I've uploaded the text as an svg, because Design Space cannot properly read system fonts - technically it allows us to use them, but it makes a mess out of them and misses all the fun things like the fancy R 's here that happened automatically in any other program. (These are called "ligatures, and are different than glyphs. If a font as ligatures, they appear automatically, unlike glyphs which you add yourself, in pretty much every other program, other than DS) Fontlab pad is FREE, and allows you to save text as an svg. The font I used is the FREE GT Herina - one of my go to favorites.
Once this is cut, I am unlikely to use this again. If I am going to use it again, it's really fast to redo - it's just typing text, saving it as an svg, and uploading it. It may sound like that's time consuming, but it's really a lot faster than sorting through 3 years of saved projects in Design Space.
I could delete the project when I am done, but that's several steps, and I often forget. It's faster, for me, to keep one project called "current cuts". Once these are cut, I select all, delete and save. So most of the time, this is a blank project saved in DS. But it's ONE blank project, and it eliminates so much clutter, for me.
For projects that involved a lot of modifications - such as attaching score lines, curving text, or a lot of welding and attaching - those I save. But for quick cuts - things that I am likely to only ever make once, or can easily just re-upload a single svg later, I stick them in my current cuts project, and delete them as soon as they are done cutting.
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An Index Of My Quick Tip Cards
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