Arizona Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtkell Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 See if this works for you. http://www.caelink.com/drawing_tabs.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 .... 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f700es Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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