DotSoft's old DWG Strip

Some of you may remember DotSoft's DWG Strip that put a tab at the bottom of ACAD for every drawing you had open.

I just got a new computer. I lost DWG Strip.

I can not find it on DotSoft's website.

Does anyone have a little add-on like this one?

Thanks y'all.

Jeff

See if this works for you.

http://www.caelink.com/drawing_tabs.htm

.... DotSoft's DWG Strip ......I can not find it on DotSoft's website.

 

FYI. I'm pretty sure it's only available as part of ToolPac now.

See if this works for you.

http://www.caelink.com/drawing_tabs.htm

Always used this one myself until AutoCAD finally caught on and added it in.

Always used this one myself until AutoCAD finally caught on and added it in.

I still prefer that 3rd party one, unfortunately it's N/A for 2015.

The built in one can't be moved to bottom and it falsely displays the [*] indicating an unsaved drawing in some cases where the drawing is truly saved.

I seem to recall one of the 3rd party ones allowed you to set tab colors, and other options.

Here is my old post about all of the options.... some 8 years ago..

I still prefer that 3rd party one, unfortunately it's N/A for 2015.

 

The built in one can't be moved to bottom and it falsely displays the

[*] indicating an unsaved drawing in some cases where the drawing is truly saved.

I seem to recall one of the 3rd party ones allowed you to set tab colors, and other options.

 

Here is my old post about all of the options.... some 8 years ago..

Well maybe that's why I stopped using CAELink's app. It worked very well.

See if this works for you.

http://www.caelink.com/drawing_tabs.htm

Well, thanks for trying to help guys.

I am using Windows 7, ACAD 2009, MAP & Land Desktop.

CAE Link's Drawing Tabs did not work. I installed it but nothing seemed to happen. I don't understand why, but nothing. I followed instructions to the T too. Maybe I need to reboot.....

The "Taskbar 1" sysvar is better than the 'window' pull down though....

Hmmm. Did you open more than one drawing? I seem to recall one of those MDI tabs programs would not show the tabs unless more than one drawing was open.

Also, did you run the APPLOAD command and see of the ARX file is listed as being loaded? Generally, each version of AutoCAD requires a different ARX file and if you try to load the wrong one, nothing will happen.

RK, I can't tell. In the list of loaded apps, I do not see anything that looks like it. Like CAE anything.

Also, I can not find a folder of where it would have put files.

I did find this in my support file search path:

C:\Users\clark\AppData\Roaming\Caelink

but that folder does not exist. There is no AppData folder under Users\Clark.

Weird.

I went ahead and installed it just to see what the installer did.

Here is my %appdata%\caelink folder.

So for ACAD 2009, you would load the file cl-DwgMan_2009-x64.arx (if you're running the x64 version of AutoCAD)

If you're running an x86 version, then I suspect the installer would install those ARX files also, but I'm not sure. I only have 2013, 2014, and 2015 loaded here, all x64 versions.