# Edit New Document Defaults

This command lets you customize Garment Designer so that you choose what you see when the program opens, and when you create a ‘New’ file. Select the New Document Defaults command from the Edit menu. A new smaller window will open with the typical pattern pieces/slopers in view. Using the available (non-dimmed) menus, set the program up the way you would like, and then, click on the Save button within the Defaults window.

Things you can save:

- Project Options: Measurement Display Units (metric vs. inches), Menu Mode (Sew, Knit, or Universal) , Margins on pattern printouts.

- Garment Options: Armhole Depth, Wearing Ease.

- Knit Options: Armhole Depth, Wearing Ease.

- Garment Length, Top/Dress and Bottom.

- Grid Display (on or off).

- Initial Units/Gauge/Sett/Count.

- Information in User Header and Info Fields.

- Symmetry settings.

- Detailed Dimensions/Counts (on or off).

- Standard Band widths.

- Global Seam Allowance widths.

- Which Additions are enabled.

- Grid Setting (Grid Dimensions).

- Dimensions (formerly Linear Units in Garment Styler) and Counts, whether on or off, and the options for these.

- Display and layout of Garment Pieces (whether left, right, both, joined, separate) and pattern layout.

- Display of Sloper, Pattern or Both.

- Scale of the Pattern Display on screen.

- Final Pattern display (on or off).

- Initial Custom or Standard Sloper size.

- The typical style options you like to start with as controlled through the Style menus (as determined by the choice in the Pop-up Menus).

- Default Standard and Custom sizes (as determined by the choice in the Pop-up Menus).

Note:

If you choose to change the options of your defaults, you must click on the Save button of the Default window. You will not see the defaults take effect until you open the next document. If necessary, close the existing document and open a new one.

Note:

It is best not to move garment points prior to setting defaults.