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Chapter 3 Using the NMT
File Menu
Figure 3-2 NMT Design Menu (All Menu Options Displayed)
When you highlight a menu item, a one-line description of the selection is displayed beneath the menu.
The NMT Design menus and their menu items are further described in the sections that follow.
File Menu
You can access the following commands from the File menu in the Network Design Tools window:
• New—Opens a new file. Clears all read and entered topology information.
• Open—Opens a previously saved file.
• Save—Saves the current configuration.
• save as...—Saves the current configuration under a new name.
• Import—Reads configuration data from other formats and imports it into the current file.
– DBF—Import topology from DBF tables and the SSI MS Excel Interface.
– WANDL—Read the topology from the set of WANDL files specified by their SPEC file.
– MAP—Read any changes made with the Map interface back into the CNF file.
Note Save changes in the map interface before importing that Map interface into the CNF file.
• Export—Writes the configuration data to other formats.
– DBF—Output table in DBF format for SSI MS Excel Interface.
– WANDL—Output topology in WANDL format for Further optimization and analysis.
– CSV—Output Tables in comma separation values.
• Read 2nd CNF—Merges all or some tables of one configuration file into another. This enables you
to perform certain operations on two separate configuration (CNF) topologies. For example,
updating the fields in one CNF table automatically updates the same fields in other CNF tables. You
can also use this option to compare two CNF files.
• Delete—Erases the configuration file.
• Change Path
—Changes the current directory path.