File Menu (Graphics Window)
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New - Step-by-step input of a new SHAPE data set.

Open - Open an old SHAPE data file.

Close - Close the current graphics window.

Save - Save a SHAPE data file.

Save as - Save a SHAPE data file with a new name.

Import File - Import data from external crystallographic file types.

Calculate - Reproduce faces by symmetry, locate corners and edges, and carry out twin operations.

Print - Print out the graphics image; see the List Results commands below for listing data and calculation results.

Print Setup - Select the printer and set its parameters.

List Results - List input data and calculation results to the file RESULTS.SHD and to a Text window.

Output group

PostScript - Direct output to a PostScript printer (bypassing the printer driver) or to an EPS file.

Pen Plot - Output to a pen plotter or HPGL file.

Raster Files - Writes raster or bit-map files in .PNG (plus .BMP, .PCX or .TIF in Windows) format.

Metafiles (Windows) or PICT (Macintosh) - Writes files to the clipboard or disk files.

Screen to Bitmap - Dumps the exact contents of the Graphics window to the clipboard or a raster file.

VRML Files - Writes files in the 3D Virtual Reality Modeling Language

POV-Ray Files - Writes files for the POV-Ray ray-tracing program.

Exit - Quit SHAPE.