Backup Designs with the Design Editor in the SAi FlexiPRINT RTUV 22 Software (Part 2)

Now like I mentioned in the previous post about the important design principles, Backups is one of those.

There are a few ways one can go about making backups of your design, but this is by far one of the cleanest ways to go about it.

This video is part of a Mini-Series.
Next video covers Practical – Template Part 1.
Previous video covered Reordering Layers – Objects.

Video Transcript

Hi guys. In today's video, we're going to be looking at how to back up your designs using the design editor, and this will be within flexi print. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za. co dot Z A. We make short and easy to watch problem solving videos, and we also have daily updates. Now, if we head into the programme here like I mentioned, uh, we're gonna be looking at backing up our design. We're using the design editor and this so be, uh, mini series on the design editor. So the first thing I wanna do is open our actual design editor. There is obviously a third icon after the and and redo and the short that is E. So if you press E, it will open it for you. And obviously, in order to do this, you need some form of design. So currently I have this flower or, uh stylized flower design on my layer one. We go to objects. Let me zoom here so you guys can actually follow along. So if I go here on my objects, page one layer, you can see here. I've got a flower design. And if I open and expand this, we've got all our shapes within that. So what makes our design? You could try to duplicate the design, But the problem about backing up in that way using the design editor is that the other design will still be on your actual, uh, page. So if you wanna cut or anything like that, it's gonna wanna include the backup as well. So in order to do that, I'm gonna zoom here again. So on our design editor layers, you'll see here, we've got layer One. Now, if I do the I, we can see OK, yes, this is the correct I. So now what I want to do is I can simply right click this one, and then we go to duplicate layer. So we've got layer two. Then I wanna double click the name. And then, uh, let's set a few things here in the layer properties. So if it didn't bring up the layer properties, uh, and it just brought up the name. You can do all of that here as well. But, um, if you you can even go on the colour here try Double click that. OK, some sort of works. Let me see. How do I do it? So now other option is If it doesn't happen as easy as that, then what you can do is you simply right. Click this go properties, and then it'll bring out this, uh uh, layer. Like I said, most of the stuff you can be sending straight here on the actual thing. But let's do this properties just to make stuff more simple. Now, if you have some of some form of style you follow, you can always, uh, colour all your backups a certain colour. Uh, maybe I would personally do something like red, so you know. OK, I'm warning. This is, like, important stuff. So then you might wanna make your main colour something else, Maybe make this one green, and then so we can OK, the green one is the one that's active, and the red one is the backup. So now let's go back there. Gonna right click our properties and then we name this. So we've got here at the moment. Layer one copy. So I'm gonna call this layer one backup, and if you want, you could add a date if you're gonna be making many of them. But I'm gonna leave this backup and then, uh so we know this is the backup of layer one. And the other thing which is important I wanna do with a backup is I wanna make sure I disable all these settings that it enabled. So I wanna make sure it's not visible so they will hide it for us. It's not principle, not editable and not cable and the master layer. We can also leap off. So now if I say OK, we have this layer, which is a backup by Zoom in here, you can see all our features are disabled. So that means when we go to the cutter or the printer, it's not gonna print the backup. But let's say we make a mistake on the actual layer, and then we can always resort back to this one. You can even make another duplicate, rename it and enable all these things to, uh, make that layer editable again. So I'm just gonna hide our actual layer one and then show our backup layer so you can see. There we go. We've got a nice copy of that. Now, you can also use this process to make uh, let's say you have a logo design or something and you wanna make modifications without, uh, editing the old one. So you wanna see which one's better, you can do the same thing, and you just move the one design off to the left, make sure it's editable so you can actually select it. Or maybe on variations, you can do the same thing, and then you just rename it logo one logo two. Like I said, you can do this on objects by duplicating these things. But the problem there is you cannot easily hide it or make it, uh, invisible to the printers and cutters. But yeah, otherwise, that is it. I'm making a backup. It's pretty straight forward. So just a quick recap. We wanna open our design editor, uh, locate the layer that we want to make up a backup of, right click it, go duplicate. And then under, once we've done that, we wanna go properties, rename it and disable all these features. Then we have a nice backup of our actual design, but yeah, in the meanwhile, though, if we head here to softwaretraining.co.za. co dot Z A. You guys will notice we've got a variety of different Softwares we do cover. And you can also isolate your searching on the top, right? If you do not, however, find the training videos you're looking for, just simply go. Yeah, request a training video, fill in the mini form, and then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise, thank you guys for watching and cheers.