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Home screen

Home screen

The Home screen welcomes you when you launch Substance 3D Designer. It helps you get started with your projects and access useful links.

The content of the screen is described in these sections below:

To close the Home Screen, use the Back button on the top left or the Close Home screen button on the bottom left. A checkbox just below lets you toggle the automatic display of the Home screen after starting Designer.

Back button


Home section

Home

The  Home section offers a banner with a highlighted suggestion for going further with Designer.
This banner can be collapsed using the  Hide suggestions button on the right.

Below, a list of recent files under the Recent header offers quick access to the last loaded projects, from most recent to oldest.

Recent files can be filtered using the Filter input field on the top right of the list. Filtering matches any string of characters present in a project's filename.

Tip:

Leave the cursor on an entry for a few seconds to display the file's full path.


Learn section

Learn

The  Learn section offers useful learning resources for growing your understanding of Substance 3D Designer.

These resources are listed as card links and grouped as follows:

  • Hands-on tutorials covers the latest features;
  • More resources gathers resources that you may find useful to go back to regularly:

What's new screen

What's new

The  What's new button on the top right of the screen displays a screen listing the major features added in your version of Designer, as well as a link to the complete release notes for that version.


Start project

On the left of the screen, you can find a list of shortcuts for creating a new graph in a new package:


About Substance 3D Designer screen

Links

On the bottom left of the screen, useful links are listed as follows:

  • About Designer: Displays the About Designer screen (see above);
  • Online documentation: Opens a webpage to this documentation;
  • Website: Opens a webpage to the Substance 3D Designer product page;
  • Forums: Opens a webpage to Substance 3D Designer's Support Community;
  • Community assets: Opens a webpage to Substance 3D Community Assets.

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