File Menu

The application's File menu, behind the VRGS button at the far left of the ribbon. (The ribbon definition calls this category Main; the documentation calls it the File menu throughout.) Contains commands for the project lifecycle: creating, opening, saving, backing up, recovering, and closing projects.

File Operations

New

Tooltip: Create a new project

Create a new VRGS project (.vgpx) file

Open

Tooltip: Open a project

Open an existing VRGS project (.vgpx, or a .vgp from VRGS 3.3 and earlier). Double-clicking either in Explorer does the same. See Opening a project.

Save

Tooltip: Save the project

Save the current project to its existing file. Ctrl+S does the same. A project from an earlier VRGS is upgraded when it opens, once you have agreed; see Upgrading an older project.

Save As

Tooltip: Save project to a new location

Save a copy of the current project to a new file and folder

Backup DB and VGP

Tooltip: Backup the project

Create a dated backup of the project database and project file — see Managing backups

Export interpretations to GeoJSON

Tooltip: Export all interpretations to GeoJSON

Write every interpretation object to a GeoJSON feature collection — see GeoJSON Project Export

Import interpretations from GeoJSON

Tooltip: Import interpretations from a GeoJSON file

Read a GeoJSON feature collection back into the interpretation tree — see Getting Data In and Out

Import from VRGS project

Tooltip: Import interpretations from another VRGS project

Pick another project's .vgp/.vgpx and bring its polylines and orientations into this one — see Getting Data In and Out

Recover a project

Tooltip: Recover project from backup

Recover a DB or VGP file from a previous backup. Greyed out while a project is open — see Managing backups

Recover from data folder

Tooltip: Recover point clouds and meshes from a damaged project's data folder

Copy the point clouds and meshes that a damaged or lost project's data folder still holds into the open project. Interpretations, orthopanels and older meshes cannot be rebuilt from files, and the source folder is only read — see Recovering models from a data folder

Recycle unused data files

Tooltip: Move data files the project no longer uses to the RECYCLING folder

Find point cloud, mesh and orthopanel files in the data folder that no model in the project uses, and move them to the RECYCLING folder. Nothing is deleted, texture images are left alone, and it runs only on a saved project — see Recycling unused data files

Clear Recent Files

Tooltip: Clear all recent files

Clear all files from the recent file list

Cleanup Database

Tooltip: Clean up the database

Move mesh and point cloud files that no model in the open project names into RECYCLING\UNLINKED. Its warning speaks of permanently deleting files, but it moves them, so the disk space comes back only when RECYCLING is emptied. Recycle unused data files covers more and checks the database as well

Close

Tooltip: Close the project

Close the project and its windows, prompting to save unsaved changes. If work is running, it offers to cancel it first — see Closing with work running

Exit

Tooltip: Exit VRGS

Close the project and exit the VRGS application