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This page provides information on the projects in Anima.


## **Overview**

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**Projects** are used to organize scenes and manage settings and assets. The scenes cannot exist without a project, therefore, to start working with anima® you must either load an existing project or **create a new one**.

It is possible to **merge** resources and scenes from other projects. Also, a project can be easily shared with other users by exporting (and importing) it.

The **Export** **pack **command will automatically collect all the assets used in the project and pack them in a single file with the *.*anipack *extension. All that process is done automatically with a single command (File > Export pack).


## **Load a Project**

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## **Create a New Project**

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> ℹ️ The ***Units*** option from the ***Project Settings*** dialog does not appear in the **Create a new project **dialog to avoid misunderstandings. The *Units* are managed automatically because the animation simulations are very sensitive to that setting, and they must be always correct in order to get useful results.
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> ℹ️ The only situation where that *Units* parameter is taken into account is when a **collision background** is imported manually (we highly recommend doing it with the **[Anima Alive](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ANIMA/pages/124355890)**** **instead). And even then, this is used only as a default option, because it can be modified in the *Import: Model settings* dialog too.
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> ℹ️ Therefore, as it has so little impact on the workflow, we decided to not show it in the **Create a new project **dialog.


## **Save a Project**

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## **Export a Project**

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## **Import a Project**

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## **Merge Two Projects**

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### **Related Topics**

- [Scenes](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ANIMA/pages/124717147)
- [Project Structure](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ANIMA/pages/124356014)