Association plt files in cadview.ini

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pavel.vlach
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Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by pavel.vlach » 13 Oct 2008, 16:26

Hi
How can I tell to CAD viewer TC plugin which files it should open via pressing F3?
It pretty works with *.plt and *.hpgl extensions, but my very old microstion (v5) creates *.001, *.002.... files or files with extension I hardly define but without incrementing.
So my idea is to edit CADViev.ini and associate 001,002,003,004,005 extensions to open.
Is it possible?

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by support » 13 Oct 2008, 16:52

Unfortunately such functionality is unavailable in the current version of CADView Plugin for TC.

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by Peter » 15 Oct 2008, 01:41

pavel.vlach wrote:Hi
How can I tell to CAD viewer TC plugin which files it should open via pressing F3?
It pretty works with *.plt and *.hpgl extensions, but my very old microstion (v5) creates *.001, *.002.... files or files with extension I hardly define but without incrementing.
So my idea is to edit CADViev.ini and associate 001,002,003,004,005 extensions to open.
Is it possible?
Hello - take a look at the settings of TC. There you can select a "prefered viewer" for F3 when there is an extension which is not defined within a viewer plugin.

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by support » 15 Oct 2008, 11:49

But CADView Plugin must "understand" what *.001, *.002 etc. file format is. Simple associating via TC gives nothing.

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by Peter » 24 Apr 2009, 16:24

pavel.vlach wrote:Hi
How can I tell to CAD viewer TC plugin which files it should open via pressing F3?...
Seem to be added, but not listed in "History.txt / Changes.txt".

True?

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by support » 24 Apr 2009, 17:21

Not true.
The question is under proceeding.

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Re: Association plt files in cadview.ini

Post by support » 20 May 2009, 15:31

Hello!

This functional was added in beta 7.

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