Managing Your Work

A single .ads file can hold more than the one model you are editing. AdaShape provides three tools for keeping design history, parallel variations, and reusable components together in that file, rather than spread across separate files on disk.

• Bookmarks — save a named snapshot of a model at any point and return to it later, or fork it into a new variation.
• Multiple Models per File — hold several independent models in one file and switch between them without opening a second window.
• Model References — reuse one model as a component inside another, and update every copy from a single source.

The tools build on the file’s own history, which AdaShape writes to disk continuously as you work.

Which one do I want?

You want to…	Use
Save a checkpoint before a risky change	A bookmark
Compare where you are now against an earlier state	A bookmark in view mode
Develop a variation without touching the original	New model from bookmark, or a new model
Keep several finished designs in one place	Multiple models per file
Model a reusable component and assemble it into larger designs	A model reference

• Bookmarks Save named snapshots of a model at any point, return to them to compare against later work, or fork one into an independent new model.
• Multiple Models per File Hold several independent models in one .ads file and switch between them without opening a second window, from the Model Catalog.
• Model References Reuse a model from the same file as a component inside another, update each reference from one source, and convert a reference to editable shapes when you need to.