Products - JTB World

Software by JTB World

Here you find JTB World's software/apps. Trial is available for most of the apps. Some apps are freeware. Many of the apps are for CAD products like AutoCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD, Revit and more. We also create custom apps to fill specific needs using programming languages like C#, VB.NET, VBA, AutoLISP.

About

JTB License Manager is a License Manager affordable for small and medium sized software development companies. Perfect choice if you are a startup.

Do you want to offer your customers time limited trials and/or functionality limited trials, single licenses (node-locked) or network licenses? What license model do you need?

Do you develop apps for Windows using VBA, .NET, C#, VB.NET or AutoLISP?

Do you develop apps that runs as Add-ins on AutoCAD or BricsCAD?

JTB License Manager is a proven product used by JTB World for our apps for many years and upon request we now offer you access to it. Want to see it in action? Download a trial of SSMPropEditor or any of our other apps.

We allow you to brand it with your logo and company name. The API is easy to use but have a lot of flexibility to fit your various needs.

Download

Email or Contact us to get a time limited trial for free.

System requirements

Operating system - Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Server. 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems are supported. Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP2) might work but are not supported.

Purchase

We know how it is to be a developer and for this reason we don't have a high upfront price but offer subscription of JTB License Manager. The price is not either related to how much our product is used or for how many your customers are. We want it to be affordable for you.

You can try the product first to make sure it fills your needs. Full support is provided during the trial period.

The initial purchase includes; usage, installation support, support, upgrades and bug fixes during the first year.

Subscription including upgrades and support is available on a yearly basis after the first year. Subscription is mandatory as long as this product is used. The price can change from year to year as the money value is changing and due to currency exchange factors.

Payment methods

If your company is tax exempt note that BlueSnap does not currently offer a way to prevent tax from being charged on orders. We need a copy of the tax exempt certificate to refund the tax if already paid.

Available payment methods depending on country where payment is done from: Local Bank Transfer (Canada), Wire Transfer to Canada, Interac e-Transfer, Cheque (to Canada). Via BlueSnap (Global Payment Gateway) these methods may be available (not a complete list as it is updated from time to time by BlueSnap): Credit card (Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, Carte Bleue), PayPal, Local Bank Transfer, Wire Transfer, ACH, Google Pay, UK Direct Debit, Smart Debit, Real-time Bank Transfer, Electronic Check (ECP), Apple Pay, Skrill (Moneybookers), WebMoney, Sofort, Giropay, iDeal, ENETS and Alipay (SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Direct Debit, PaySafeCard, Ukash, cashU, Boleto Bancario, Boleto Bancario can be made available upon request) - Refund policy

If you decide to purchase we will send you details so you can make a bank wire transfer or we will send you a hyperlink to a secure e-commerce web site that will handle the purchasing.

Email the computer number as reported in License Activation and you will receive a license key to unlock and register this product after the purchase is done.

If you need to purchase through a reseller see this link.

Documentation

Full documentation PDF.

Branding your way

Generate license keys or license file to your customers with our easy to use Excel based license generator.

Provide your customers network licenses

AutoCAD support

BricsCAD support

Support

JTB World regards customer support high and if you consider purchasing our software we will support and guide you for free to be able to run and try it fully.

For any support questions, feature request or feedback feel free to contact us.

Support is most often provided via email. Skype, phone, web-meeting are also available if needed.

Most often support is given within 24 hours even though we cannot guarantee it.

Version History

2021-10-23 - version 4.7.0
- Can now handle if email software makes a minor modification of the license file when received.
- Various improvements.
2021-07-17 - version 4.6.2
- License Server: If import license file, replace existing one with zero license number, the app won’t show again in the list. This is the case a client upgrade an app to new version, and the old one is obsoleted.
- License Server Dashboard: Reset button: if the License Table has been changed, it will ask to save change before reset or not. If no save, the reset process is like a reopen License Table and discard all recently imported License files. This is for some client misunderstanding the Reset button as same as Save button after import License File.
2021-03-22 - version 4.6.1
- There is new License File Generator.exe to generate license per user with
  ServerDownAllowance greater than zero.
- Now, for network license per user, the ServerDownAllowance is no more suppressed. It is up to developer to determine to allow it or not, and how long.
  work with the appcode version > 1
  add log tell about there are n license for the older version of the app found, which are not available for the new version of the app.
  fix bug in license per user which unlock the license before the last PC of user has returned it.
2021-03-12 - version 4.5.1
- Fixed temp file bug in License V4.dll.
- Upgraded logging functions.
2020-11-01 - version 4.5.0
- Improvements of how to lock a license to a user or host.
- Improvements to the usage log.
2020-10-05 - version 4.4.0
- Resolve the dynamic IP issue.
2020-07-05 - version 4.3.0.1
- Licensing update with encryption compliant with Federal Information Processing Standards(FIPS).
- Bug fix for network licenses where Unknown could show as PC name in the License Server Dashboard.
- New format for usage log.
2019-12-09 - version 4.0.0
- First public release (used by JTB World for many years)

License agreement

The license agreement is found here: JTB World software license agreement.

About

JTB FlexReport is a report tool for applications using network license systems like FlexNet / FLEXlm (flexlm license manager), IBM LUM (IBM License Use Management), DSLS (Dassault Systèmes License Server), SPLM (Intergraph SmartPlant License Manager), SLM/Sentinel LM/Sentinel RMS/Sentinel Protection Server/SafeNet Sentinel (SafeNet / Gemalto / Thales), LM-X, Solidworks SNL License Manager, T-Systems license manager product LICMAN, Vertex Systems, MathLM (Wolfram Mathematica license manager), RLM (Reprise License Manager) and RLMCloud, Ranorex, Venturis (TRICAD), Altium, Primavera from Oracle, GHSlm (Green Hills Software License Manager), LSTC-Dyna (LS-DYNA / Ansa / mETA / Livermore Software Technology Corporation), BETA LM (BETA CAE Systems), PKit license manager (PersonalQM / Method Park / Stages), ELM (EPLAN License Manager), Sentinel HASP (aka Aladdin HASP SRM) by SafeNet, DP Technology (DPT/ESPRIT), Tebis, CodeMeter (Wibu-System), DS-2 (PLM of Zuken PCB Design), TLM (TASKING License Management by Altium), or 12D software licensing. With JTB Process Monitor any Windows application like Acrobat, Visio, Bentley MicroStation, single licensed AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT can be reported usage of.

Do you want to optimize your software purchases tomorrow? By the license tracking JTB FlexReport does and the graphic reports that can be produced JTB FlexReport will help you to manage and forecast future license usage and license usage trends at your company.

Is SAMsuite, SAMreport or FlexNet Manager/FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications a too expensive product or SAMreport-Lite not enough? Do you want better license statistics or searching for an alternative to FlexNet Manager for your floating licenses (concurrent licenses)? Need help with your software asset management? Then take a good look at JTB FlexReport that is an inexpensive solution.

Email or Contact us to get a time limited trial for free. You can try it in your environment with your real data for a few weeks with full functionality.
Full support is provided during trial period. Right after installing it for the first time it works in trial mode for 7 days. Email us the computer number as reported in JTB FlexReport Config>License Activation (install JTB FlexReport Core first).

We offer Proof of Value (POV) of JTB FlexReport, by the ability to testing its capabilities within your environment, so that you can build a business case for the software based on your own real data.

JTB FlexReport will help you to see the license usage over time and help to justify new purchases. This will help you to decide when and how many licenses you will need to purchase next time. Instead of guessing and purchasing more licenses than you really need you can save your money using JTB FlexReport. JTB FlexReport will help to implement Software Asset Management (SAM) procedures in your organization, optimize existing investments, be better prepared for Vendor Audits, reduce risks like unexpected software costs, maintain compliance, control costs and reduce costs.

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Look at an introduction on YouTube, in Flash format or in PowerPoint format.
For PowerPoint version make sure you view the PowerPoint show as it's animated. Press F5 in PowerPoint.
(Download Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Viewer or newer if you don't have PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer)
Alternative online presentation format of the PowerPoint presentation.

JTB FlexReport web report

if you want to host a web based version of JTB FlexReport we have it. See this blog post for an example of usage.

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More functionality

JTB FlexReport can produce HTML reports showing who uses the licenses right now. Basic report Sample 1. Advanced report Sample 2 or a dark version. These can be created manually or automatically and for example be put on SharePoint. See also the freeware JTB FlexReport LT.

Histogram Chart that can help to determine if you need more or less licenses. Notice how there are 25 licenses but probably it could be enough with 20 or even 15 licenses because there is very small percentage when there are more than 15 licenses used concurrently.

Data is also logged to a database so you can track the usage per user or host (computer) as well as work with groups of users or hosts. Great if you need help to split license costs. Groups of features or servers can also be created and be used for reporting upon.

Email notifications (alerts/reminders) when usage is exceeding a specified level.

Let's say you have 10 licenses of your software that costs $3,000 each. Now you have 20 users that shares these licenses. Do you know if you really need these 10 licenses or if you need more now when 2 more users are coming in? If you have JTB FlexReport it will be easier to make a correct decision. If you just need to purchase 1 less license imagine your ROI (Return Of Investment) and benefit of using JTB FlexReport.

With the help of JTB FlexReport you can minimize software and maintenance/subscription/renting spendings.

JTB FlexReport supports reporting on usage of applications and companies that uses FlexNet / FLEXlm from Flexera/Revenera (formerly Globetrotter Software, Macrovision and Acresso), IBM LUM and applications like 12d Model from 12D Solutions, RISA-3D (SLM based) and many more. Several thousands of independent software vendors have used the FlexNet / FLEXlm family of products. Among them are companies and/or applications from ANSYS (ANSYS License Manager), Abaqus, Autodesk, AVEVA (PDMS), Borland, Cadence, CADopia (IntelliCAD), Citrix (Citrix MetaFrame, Citrix XenApp), Cognos, EDS, Esri (ArcGIS), I-Deas, Macromedia, Mathsoft (MathCAD), Mathworks (Matlab), Mentor, Pixar, Platform, Progman/Cadcom, PTC (Pro-Engineer), Rasterx (RxView), Rational, Siemens PLM Licensing, Softimage, Solidworks, Sybase, Synopsys, Unigraphics, WindRiver, ZWSOFT (ZWCAD, ZW3D), etc. IBM LUM is used by Dassault Systemes with applications like Catia and Enovia. LM-X is for example used by Solibri products. MathLM (Mathematica), Vertex Systems (Vertex BD - BIM Software for Steel and Wood Framing Construction, Vertex G4 - 3D Mechanical Engineering Software for Machinery Industries, Vertex Flow PDM / PLM Software).

RLM (Reprise License Manager) is for example used by Ansys/EvenAG, Bitplane, CadWorks, CMG (CMGL), Bricsys/BricsCAD, DesignBuilder, Elemental Tech, FEMTools/DDS, FINCAD, Genarts, GibbsCAM, Graebert (ARES), HumanSolutions, Lanner, LLamasoft, MAPublisher, Minesight, Oasys Design Systems, Programming Research, Runge, Siemens/KineoCam, Siemens/LMS (LMS International), Simerics, SolidAngle, Solver, StreamSim, TecPlot, Trace32 (Lauterbach), WesternGeco (Gedco). Import of RLM license server report log is available as well as snapshots taken with the rlmutil.exe utility.

This is an example of a detailed report created with JTB FlexReport. Every user is mapped to a group. The group can be a location, division, cost center, it's up to you. You can also see what users that are not within a group.

Report app that makes it easy to create different type of charts and reports of the license usage and historical usage. Create the reports manually or automatically on schedule to be published on a server as PNG files or emailed.

This report is showing how many hours each user has used applications each month sorted with the highest usage first.

If you have cascading licenses or multiple versions of the same application, you can combine the various separate reports to get a total usage. This way it can help you to comply with that your company are not using more licenses than allowed as can be the case if you for example have AutoCAD 2018, AutoCAD 2017, etc. on subscription from Autodesk.

Look at historical data of for example of 20 months where max usage per day is showed. Notice that the available number of licenses has been adjusted up and down. In this case the licenses are rented on a monthly basis.

Or 10 months.

Or just 5 days.

Any of the chart and list reports can be created automatically on a regular interval as PNG images and if a fixed name is used for them they can be put on a simple HTML page that users can access or for example SharePoint.

Drilldown to find who might have used licenses at a specific point in time.

Usage per Feature per Day.

Denied per Month. Notice in column LicenseFound how some users did not find a license within a reasonable time as well as how many times they were denied.

Concurrent Usage Per Month report showing max, min and average usage as well as standard deviation.

Find out what users have borrowed licenses but still are online and connected to the network and if needed contact them to return the license earlier. Use the Pinged Host Report.

Chart report on how many hours users have been using a feature.

For Autodesk customers who own a subscription with multi-user access or network maintenance or Design & Creation Suites, JTB FlexReport can help you transition to a plan for named users.

IBM LUM idle time reporting is available where the the percentage idle time per Workbench, user and host is reported on per day, week or month. Contact us for details.

German privacy law, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance or similar can be met by not recording any details about the users and hosts.

Multiple license servers in a LNA/WAN can be monitored from one location even across multiple time zones or countries. No limitation in number of servers, features, users or hosts that can be monitored.

FlexNet/FLEXlm support includes Floating (Concurrent) Licenses (also referred to as concurrent usage or network licensing), Redundancy via License-File List (distributed license servers), Redundant License Server Systems (triads or three-server redundancy) and node-locked licenses (Counted Licenses and Uncounted Licenses).

This is a list of systems that are not directly supported but JTB Process Monitor can report on the application usage of many of the applications using these license systems. Archicad wibu, Felics, Bentley licensing and SELECTserver, RSoft, GNS License Manager, Orcaflex, Transoft, Sparx, Bitlock, Elprocad, Rhino3d zoo, IBM Rational ClearCase Atria.
Contact us if you have a need for full support of any of them or any that is not listed here.

Get ready to optimize network license and most any other software's usage as well as your software assets.

Network license assessment can be made easier with JTB World's license reporting for FlexNet and many other license systems.

Are you a PowerBI user? if so connect to the database and create your own reports. See JTB World Blog: Example of usage of JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor

Typical users of JTB FlexReport are: IT managers, Director of Information Technology, CAD managers, IT staff, IT technicians, IT Asset Management staff (ITAM), License Administrators, Software Compliance Specialists, Software and Sys Admins, Application Administrators, BIM/CAD Systems Managers, Asset Co-ordinators, Network Sys. Admin., Systems Administrators, Design Technologies Administrator, Technology Manager any many more.

JTB Process Monitor

This is a separately purchased module that expands the functionality of JTB FlexReport to be able to record and monitor usage of processes or applications.

This opens the door to monitor usage of standalone applications like Word, Excel, Outlook, Adobe creative cloud for teams, Autodesk Named User licenses, AutoCAD LT or applications with network licenses that otherwise are not supported by JTB FlexReport. And with that you can reduce cost and optimize licensing for many more products.

There is a service part and a client part of the application and two separate installers. The data is saved into the main JTB FlexReport database and reports on the usage can be done in the normal way. This means that JTB FlexReport also needs to be installed. The client computer does not need to be connected to the network all the time, making it useful even when users are working off-line like from their home or on travel. It still can monitor the usage and when connected again it will send back the data to the server.

Another usage scenario is to identify users that might not need a full license.

There are also applications that even though they use FlexNet or LUM they are used only a few seconds or minutes and their usage recorded with JTB FlexReport is limited because of the snapshot intervals. With JTB Process Monitor also these applications can be more correctly monitored.

Optionally allow the user to select a project to associate with the session when an application is started. This way you can report on hours used per project.

If you have a need to split costs of software based on usage JTB Process Monitor will be a big help.

JTB Process Monitor can be set to report on actual usage of a software by monitoring mouse and keyboard usage within the software. So if the software is not being used for a certain time this will be detected.

Do you have a lot of users borrowing network licenses and don't want to see 24 hours usage per day on the reports? Add JTB Process Monitor and either get the time the monitored app is run or actively used.

JTB Process Monitor is useful while preparing to convert standalone licenses to network licenses as it will help to know how much the applications are used and by what users.

JTB Process Monitor can be used to report on what actual product is run on the client when using an Autodesk suite or collection license or named user licenses.

For Autodesk customers who own a subscription with Standalone Maintenance or Design & Creation Suites, JTB Process Monitor can help you transition to a plan for named users.

JTB Process Monitor can report usage of products on Autodesk's named users plans and the token based Autodesk Flex. You get much more functionality and report from JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor that the limited reporting Autodesk provides. Report on how much the applications are actually used by your users. Identify inactive users. Do you really need a license for a user only using the application 4 times per week a total of 2 hours? Or are there better options? With JTB Process Monitor you can better take these decisions.

See more in the JTB Process Monitor Documentation.

For a trial of JTB Process Monitor you need these 5 installers: JTB FlexReport Core, JTB FlexReport Service, JTB FlexReport Client, JTB Process Monitor Service and JTB Process Monitor Client.

Download

Downloads for the latest version 2022.5.0 See also the Documentation and upgrade tips.

Note that version sometimes can be lower for individual installers and files.
See Revision History for details.

Main download

JTB FlexReport Core
JTB FlexReport Core 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Mandatory installer. This is the main or core service needed to retrieve usage and save to the database. .NET Framework 4.6 or newer required.

Reports service and client

JTB FlexReport Service
JTB FlexReport Service 2022.5.0 Setup.zip
Optional but recommended installer. This is the report service that is needed for the creation of reports. .NET Framework 4.6 or newer required.

JTB FlexReport Client
JTB FlexReport Client 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Optional but recommended installer. This is the client for the report creation. .NET Framework 4.6 or newer required.

JTB Process Monitor service and client

JTB Process Monitor is priced separately and is not included with the purchase of JTB FlexReport. Let us know approximately how many computers it should monitor and contact us for a quote.

JTB Process Monitor Service
JTB Process Monitor Service 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Optional installer. This is the service that is needed together with the JTB Process Service. .NET Framework 4.0 or newer required.

JTB Process Monitor Client
JTB Process Monitor Client 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Optional installer. This is the client for the JTB Process Client. .NET Framework 4.0 or newer required.

SPLM (SmartPlant License Manager) service and client

JTB FlexReport SPLM Service
JTB FlexReport SPLM Service 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Optional installer for monitoring of SPLM usage. This is the service that is needed together with the SPLM Client. .NET Framework 4.0 required or newer. Install on same machine as where core JTB FlexReport is running.

JTB FlexReport SPLM Client
JTB FlexReport SPLM Client 2022.4.0 Setup.zip
Optional installer for monitoring of SPLM usage. This is the client for the SPLM Service. .NET Framework 4.0 required or newer. Install on the SPLM license server.

Other downloads

Sample database for MS Access
Sample database for MS SQL Server - useful for evaluation and demo of the report and chart features.

Download of FlexNetFeatures.xml. Useful if there is no internet connection or access to the file is blocked where JTB FlexReport is installed. If you want to get descriptions for features in JTB FlexReport Config>Features then download this xml file to your desktop and save it into the JTB FlexReport folder and then click on JTB FlexReport Config>Features>Get Feature Descriptions.

Tracking of Primavera usage is available upon request.

These are two MS Access based tools to help merging multiple MDB databases into one or update an old one if there are database definition problems like indexes missing resulting in duplicate rows and other potential issues.
JTB FlexReport Merge DBs 11.0.0.zip

JTBFlexReport.NET.mdb 2020.11.0.zip is an empty database if there is a need to start from scratch and you don't have the empty copy in the installation folder.

SQL Server scripts:

Update DB: JTB FlexReport SQL update version 2022.1.0.txt This will add and update needed temporary tables when Update DB fail and the Client shows the error that Temporary tables are not created or that selections fail and only <All> shows in the list.

Backup old data: JTB FlexReport SQL backup old data 11.TXT

Delete old data: JTB FlexReport SQL delete old data 11.TXT

Create a copy of the database and upgrade the copy at the same time:
JTB FlexReport SQL create and copy db version 2020.11.0.txt
This can be useful if JTB FlexReport is not able to automatically add new tables, new indexes or new columns.

Upgrade Tips

When upgrading JTB FlexReport Core, Service or Client from 12.0.0 or newer or JTB Process Monitor from 12.1.0 or newer, just run the setup.

When upgrading from 2020.10.0 or older, the database needs to be updated. After installing run Update DB in JTB FlexReport Config or for SQL Server the Update DB script above can be used.

To upgrade from older versions than above, uninstall previous JTB installations and install the new ones. Before uninstalling it is good practice to first stop the JTB services.

If you want to be on the safe side make a backup of the database or the setup folder but that is normally not needed.

Some settings are saved in the registry and normally are upgraded correctly. But to be on the safe side backup of these keys can be done (one or both may exist):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JTB World
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JTB World

If you want to start with a new database from scratch, backup, delete or rename the old database before installing the new version of JTB FlexReport Core. JTBFlexReport.NET.mdb is the MS Access database to use. For SQL Server see Core documentation how to create a new database.

If using MS Access database now it's time to remember to compact the JTBFlexReport.NET.mdb database using the Database Administration tool or MS Access. Never let it grow close to 2Gb.

JTB FlexReport Config > Update DB can be used to update the database definition (if upgrading from a version older than 12.0 to 12.0 or newer) to the latest if you plan to keep using an old database. Sometimes this update is not able to solve all problems. A more thorough method for MS Access databases is using JTB FlexReport Merge DBs <version>.zip, extract JTBFlexReportMergeDBs - manual start.mdb and follow the instructions in the .txt file. This can solve bloating databases due to missing or incorrect indexes. If using SQL Server database there are scripts that can help to update the database definition.

Run JTB FlexReport Config>Launch Service Configurator and make sure the settings are correct and press ok. Then check all other properties like license servers to monitor. Start service.

A good practice is to after a while make sure everything works after the upgrade. Start to check that JTBFlexReport2.htm found in JTB FlexReport folder looks ok.
Look for the JTBFlexReport.log file in the temporary folder (the folder can be set in JTB FlexReport Config and is as default %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\JTB World\JTB FlexReport). If there are errors in that file that you don't understand please zip and email it to us for further investigations.

Run JTB FlexReport Service Configurator and make sure the settings are correct. Press Configure and start services and use the two test buttons. Run the Report Client and verify that the reports are working.

Sometimes the following can be needed: Run JTB FlexReport Service Configurator, make sure JTB FlexReport Sampling Service is checked, press Configure and Start Services, then press Clear followed by Sampling All Records.

The following is not needed for version 12.0 or newer. If "Log On As" has been manually modified (when UNC paths are used) for the Windows services of JTB FlexReport you need to modify this again after installing. Typical indicator can be that denials are no longer recorded or reported on even though the debug log paths are still available on the FlexNet tab.

If the configurator for the report service or client crashes or other strange errors happens it might help to uninstall, empty the installation folder(s) and reinstall. Make also sure the .NET Framework is matching the requirement for the installer.

On some systems when running the installer nothing happens. This can be because the settings on the server does not allow running files downloaded from the internet. To solve this right click on the exe and msi files one at a time, select properties and click on unblock.

System requirements

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 or/and later is needed.

Operating system - Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012. 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems are supported. Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP2), Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista might work but are not supported. FLEXlm or FlexNet can be installed and run on other operating systems like Mac OS X, UNIX or Linux and is possible to report usage from but JTB FlexReport must run on a Windows OS.

Microsoft Access is not needed to have installed even if MS Access is selected to be used as database.

If MS SQL Server is used to host the database the following are supported: MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MS SQL Server 2012, MS SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, MS SQL Server Express 2008 R2, MS SQL Server Express 2012, MS SQL Server Express 2014, MS SQL Server Express 2016, MS SQL Server Express 2017, MS SQL Server Express 2019.

2 GB is the limit for MDB files if MS Access is used.
10 GB is the limit if MS SQL Server Express 2008 R2 or newer is used.
No limit if MS SQL Server is used.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

You can always try the product first to make sure it fills your needs. Full support is provided during the trial period.

Contact us for a price quote by sending an email to info@jtbworld.com. Include what applications you have and the number of licenses each or at least the total number of licenses / modules / features / components / bundles / packages you want to report on. No need to include free licenses.

The price is ranging from a few hundred USD and up depending on the amount of network licenses it should handle (for example $4111 USD for 451-500 network licenses to monitor) and depending how much customization that needs to be done, if any. Enterprise license is $8045 USD.

The price is normally not based on number of license servers, services or number of applications or features.

JTB Process Monitor is priced in relation to an estimation of number of clients. The price per license is approximately 1/4 of the price for the main core JTB FlexReport application plus a base cost of $542 USD. Let us know approximately how many computers it should monitor and contact us for a quote.

Price is also geography-based to make the price attractive and reasonable in some countries that typically have lower priced software. Token based licenses are priced in relation to the number of tokens and how much they are worth. Node-locked licenses can also be valued lower than floating licenses. Autodesk subscription customers only pay for the license count they have on subscription even if they have multiple versions. Example: Count the base product/package AutoCAD but not the sum of AutoCAD 2021, 2022 and 2023. And for bundles only count the bundle/suite/collection and not the products that are part of the bundle. If you have a situation that you have much more network licenses than you make use of let us know as we can take that into account and lower the price.

If you're interested in renting the software contact us for details.

Educational institutions like schools, high schools and universities with free or educational licenses like Autodesk Campus licenses are offered substantial discount.

The price includes installation support, support, most upgrades, bug fixes, minor customizations during the first year. The price also includes that you can increase the number of licenses to report on with around 10-20%.

Maintenance (15% of the purchase price) including upgrades and support is available on a yearly basis after the first year. Maintenance is entirely optional. Increases of the number of licenses or products can be adjusted at the time of the change if there is a big increase or when the maintenance is to be paid. The maintenance can be lowered if the number of licenses goes down. The maintenance price can change from year to year as the money value is changing and due to currency exchange factors.

Payment methods

If you decide to purchase we will send you details so you can make a bank wire transfer or we will send you a hyperlink to a secure e-commerce web site that will handle the purchasing.

Email the computer number as reported in License Activation and you will receive a license key to unlock and register JTB FlexReport after the purchase is done. The license is perpetual even if you don't need or want to pay maintenance you can still use JTB FlexReport for the version you last paid for and for up to the amount of licenses to monitor you purchased for. If upgrade or support or increase of licenses to monitor is needed maintenance needs to be renewed.

If you need to purchase through a reseller see this link.

Documentation

Read the documentation first for instructions on how to install, configure and run JTB FlexReport. For a presentation see this video on YouTube.

Main installers to download for most are “JTB FlexReport Core Setup <version>.exe”, “JTB FlexReport Report Service <version>.exe” and “JTB FlexReport Report Client <version>.exe”.

To get started using JTB FlexReport read the JTB FlexReport Core application documentation PDF, specifically start with the subjects General information, Installation and Getting started. JTB FlexReport Report Service and Report Documentation PDF will be useful to understand how the report creation works.

After installing click on License Activation button in JTB FlexReport Config and send us the computer number so we can send back a license key that you then can enter to activate the license. The installation works without activation for 7 days.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Download the JTB FlexReport Core application documentation PDF.

View JTB FlexReport Core Installation YouTube video or download it. (the video is quite old and not up-to-date)

View JTB FlexReport Detailed Reports usage YouTube video or download it. (the video is quite old and not up-to-date)

Download the JTB FlexReport Report Service and Client Documentation PDF. At the end of the document there are several sample reports showing what the report app can achieve.

View JTB FlexReport Chart Report Installation YouTube video or download it. (the video is quite old and not up-to-date)

View JTB FlexReport Chart Client usage YouTube video or download it. (the video is quite old and not up-to-date)

Download the JTB Process Monitor Documentation PDF.

SPLM (SmartPlant License Manager) documentation as below:

You need to run the installer from JTBFlexReportSPLMService_(version no here).zip on the computer where you now have JTB FlexReport installed and running. You will get a configurator showing where you specify the path to JTBFlexReport.NET.mdb or whatever database you selected. Click on Configure and on Start Service. Take note of the port number and the server machine name as this is needed to configure the SPLM client.

JTBFlexReportSPLMClient_(version no here).zip needs to be copied to the SPLM server or servers and run the installer. In the configurator specify the path to pdlice.exe (local path required, example C:\path\pdlice.exe). The Product Usage Log Location is used to get denials only from an existing SPLM log. Select Log Product Usage on the SmartPlant License Manager main window and click Select and in the dialog box start logging after specifying log location. Use the same port and name as in the service configurator. Click on Configure and click on Start. Then click on Exit.
Now if everything goes well you should eventually get SPLM usage added to JTBFlexReport.NET.mdb or whatever database you selected.

JTB FlexReport FAQ

Autodesk Network License Manager and Autodesk GNUL licenses are supported.

See also the FlexNet Feature Codes page with most Autodesk feature codes ad their descriptions.

Support

JTB World regards customer support high and if you consider purchasing our software we will support and guide you for free to be able to run and try it fully.

For any support questions, feature request or feedback feel free to contact us.

Support is most often provided via email. Skype, phone, web-meeting are also available if needed.

Support is included with the purchase during the first year. After that support is provided if you have a maintenance agreement with us.

The support of JTB FlexReport is included in the price during the first year.

Maintenance including upgrades and support is available on a yearly basis after the first year. Maintenance is optional unless there is an increase of licenses to monitor or there is a need for support or upgrades.

Most often support is given within 24 hours even though we cannot guarantee it.

Version History

2022-05-06 - JTB FlexReport 2022.5.0
- JTB FlexReport Service
  - Fixed that sampling failed for Project so Project was missing in reports.
  - Fixed date format bug in Feature List Report.

Complete JTB FlexReport version history here.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

“With JTB monitoring and distributed licensing, we were actually able to cut 80 licenses off subscription on our last Autodesk renewal. It’s been a great success for us – thank you!” - Dan Glassman, AEI | AFFILIATED ENGINEERS, INC.

"I am very happy with LUM support. It is very good tool. I would recommend to anyone to use this tool." - Jorma at Metso

“JTB FlexReport is dynamite. Expect tech support very quickly. Fantastic graphing and reporting tool for license usage. I liked it so much I personally paid the annual fee so I can keep using it here. And no, I am not a paid spokesman, it’s just that good……….” – Phil Endrizzi, CADD Coordinator

"JTB FlexReport is a must have utility for anyone with more than a handful of licenses if they truly want to understand where they stand with their software license inventory and usage. In addition to license inventory and usage, JTB Flex Report allows us to troubleshoot issues with our license server that would otherwise have likely went unnoticed."

"Your product has been invaluable to me and to the business."

"Since I have been using your JTB FlexReport software it has made my job easier for report generation of license utilization for our various applications. All in all it is a fantastic software product and it is reasonable priced." - David J. Maslowski, Hach

Some JTB FlexReport customers:

Several hundreds more customers are found here .

Tags: network license usage tracking, usage tracker, license tracker, license tracking, Software License Optimization, AutoCAD network license usage, AutoCAD license usage report, Managing Autodesk network licenses, network license-usage report for Autodesk software that uses FLEXlm licensing technology, Autodesk audit, License Compliance, how to ensure future compliance, The Business Software Alliance (the BSA). AdLM monitoring. AdLM or NLM is often used as short for Autodesk Network License Manager.

Autodesk License Types: Named user, Stand-alone, multi-seat version, Network. License Behaviors: Perpetual (non-time-limited), Term Extendable (limited time) and Term Non-Extendable. Autodesk Subscription.

About

JTB SmartBatch (aka SmartPurger) is a batch and script utility for processing multiple DWG drawings with full control with AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, GstarCAD, DraftSight, NanoCAD, Graebert's ARES Commander and more.

JTB SmartBatch closes dialog boxes that might otherwise stop batch processing like for example dialog box showing missing fonts. Execute LSP or SCR files on multiple drawings. JTB SmartBatch handles crashes so the AutoCAD batch processing continues to the end and leaves bad drawings to be corrected manually. Many purge and cleanup settings available. Useful before backups and distribution of drawings. The file's modified time stamp can be restored.

The free trial without license file is fully functional except that you can only batch process 10 drawings per session to give you the chance to confirm that the program works as expected. When you purchase you can use JTB SmartBatch with no limitations.

Batch process drawing files with JTB SmartBatch to avoid bloating or corrupt files by running AUDIT and PURGE on them or any other custom command you want.

JTB SmartBatch batch processing for AutoCAD is useful if you want to minimize the size of files before a backup or before sending drawings by e-mail, burning to CD or just to use as a quick viewer of drawings. You have options to save the files to a separate folder or to a different drawing version.

JTB SmartBatch can execute custom script files (.SCR) or AutoLISP files (.LSP, .FAS or .VLX). We can help you create them based on your special needs.

JTB SmartBatch can make use of AutoCAD Core Console that was introduced in AutoCAD 2013 making the scripting process faster then ever as the Core Console takes less than a second to open per drawing. In a test using the Core Console took 11 minutes compared to normal AutoCAD 2013 that took 58 minutes to process 145 drawings.

You can set up JTB SmartBatch to run different AutoCAD applications for different drawing file versions. Optionally specify the profile to be used when starting AutoCAD.

From a real project: 1773 drawings and a total size of 526MB in 2000 DWG format become 218MB in 2004 DWG format. Conversion and purging was made totally unattended. JTB SmartBatch can without problem process 10,000 drawings and more.

You can run audit, zoom extents, create preview icons. Convert between versions. Purge Blocks, Detail view styles, Dimension styles, Layers, Linetypes, Materials, Mline styles, Multileader styles, Plot styles, Regapps, Section view styles, Shapes, Text styles, Table styles, Visual styles, Page Setups, Filter states, Layer states, Layer manager states (Express Tools), Line objects without length, Text objects without text, embedded VBA code, registered applications collections, Anonymous Groups, Groups, Orphaned Data. It's possible to restore the date and time of the file to what it was before the scripting. Delete .BAK and other temporary or garbage files. And much more.

ZWCAD usage.

Remember that this is a very powerful tool and make sure you understand and know what you do when you use it. Read the documentation before you run it. Try on some test files/folders as a start. To be on the safe side make sure you have backups before you run.

Do you have a large list of text strings that you need to find and replace on many drawings? Contact us for a special command that can be used with JTB SmartBatch.

If AutoCAD's -PURGE command crashes AutoCAD because it runs out of memory (FATAL ERROR: Out of memory - shutting down) when purging Regapps make sure to use the purge option "Purge all registered applications collection" instead. It can take really long time (from some minutes to some hours) so set the timeout to max value (100000) and leave it running during the night. Sometimes it can help to unload the xrefs on all drawings you want to purge from Regapps otherwise they just keeps coming back (this is not needed when using accoreconsole.exe or for AutoCAD 2018 and newer if XREFREGAPPCTL is set to 0, run on both host and xrefs). Create a small lsp file with this code and run it first on all drawings.

(command "._-xref" "_u" "*")
After that you can run the files, purging the Regapps. Remember that all nested xrefs has to be run.

Then run a lsp file that loads the xrefs again using code like this:
(command "._-xref" "_r" "*")

Since release 2.6 you can use the option "Purge Regapps using ASDKCleanRegAppARX.arx (2004-2008)". Thanks to James Maeding that provided it and the ADN team that created it. This is much better than the other options "Purge all Regapps" and "Purge all registered applications collection". Layer filters too are purged with this option.

Download

Latest release is version 6.1.0.

Download JTB SmartBatch installer

If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

Limitation in trial mode is that only 10 drawings can be processed per JTB SmartBatch session.

JTB SmartBatch trial can also be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Example of products that JTB SmartBatch can run on: AutoCAD 97 LT and newer (LT only supports a limited number of functions), AutoCAD r14 up to AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD 2013, AutoCAD 2014, AutoCAD 2015, AutoCAD 2016, AutoCAD 2017, AutoCAD 2018, AutoCAD 2019, AutoCAD 2020, AutoCAD 2021, AutoCAD 2022, AutoCAD 2023. All flavors or toolsets should be working like AutoCAD Architecture, Autodesk Advance Steel, Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical, Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk AutoCAD MEP, Autodesk AutoCAD P&ID, Autodesk AutoCAD Plant 3D, ACA, ADT, ABE, ABM, ABS, AMEP, LDD and MDT. 32-bit and 64-bit supported.

An AutoCAD based application is required to run JTB SmartBatch, but other DWG compatible applications like BricsCAD, GstarCAD, ZWCAD, DraftSight and AutoCAD OEM also work.

Windows 11 and Windows 10 have been tested and are supported. 32-bit and 64-bit supported. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 are not supported but should work.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

Join many other satisfied customers around the world since its first release in 2001. JTB SmartBatch has been sold to customers from Alaska USA to New York USA, to Brazil in South America, to Netherlands in Europe, and all the way down to Australia and many other places. Customers ranges from individuals to very large companies.

New license: 95 USD for one license of JTB SmartBatch or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license of JTB SmartBatch or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

The license is perpetual. Support and upgrades is included for a minimum of 2 years after purchase. If you have more than one computer and you are the only user of the application one license is enough.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

JTB SmartBatch can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Use this link to purchase.

Documentation

JTB SmartBatch documentation

Version History

2022-04-25 - 6.1.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support.

Complete JTB SmartBatch version history here.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

"You provided an excellent product in “SmartPurger”. This application suits us perfectly. A powerful and multi-faceted application equals value for lower cost." - Clint Hill

More JTB SmartBatch customers here.

About

Multiple drawings can be automatically created from a typical drawing or updated based on a control file that can be created with an Excel template. Make the changes in Excel and let the program do all the work for you. This is a real time saver if you need to make adjustments on hundreds or thousands of drawings.

Optionally an AutoLISP file (*.lsp;*.vlx;*.fas) can be loaded for each drawing. Each drawing can use a separate AutoLISP file if needed. This gives you almost unlimited flexibility when it comes to what task you want to automate.

Example of usages: Add a stamp block; insert a title block; update text or attributes in the title block; insert text, block or xref; change text or attribute values and more. Change all external references (xrefs) from absolute paths to relative paths for archive purpose. Find and replace attribute or text values.

Bulk updating AutoCAD or BricsCAD drawings in most any way that you would like.

If you have an idea of what you want to automate but don't know how to realize it, contact us for a solution.

AutoGen

AutoGen creates new drawings based on one or more template drawings based on the control file. In the process text, mtext and block attribute values can be changed individually on each new drawing.

It is possible to change only a part of the text string. If the template drawing contain the text "SHEET #sheetno#" it can be updated to for example "SHEET 1" by specifying #sheetno# as the text to change.

Depending on your computer performance and the complexity of the drawing you can generate around 100 drawings in just 60 seconds.

AutoGen has been used by customers creating instrumentation drawings, loop diagrams (loop drawings), schematics in an automated way based on data in a spreadsheet.

AutoIns

AutoIns inserts text, blocks or xrefs into drawings based on the control file.

These are the properties that can be set using the control file.

Object	Property
General	Layer
General	Color
General	Rotation
General	Insertion point X
General	Insertion point Y
General	Insertion point Z
General	Layout
General	UCS (Current, World, Named)
Block/Xref	Path+Name
Block/Xref	Scale X
Block/Xref	Scale Y
Block/Xref	Scale Z
Block	Explode (Yes/No)
Xref	Reference type (Attach/Overlay)
Xref	Path type (Full/Relative/No)
Text	Style
Text	Justify
Text	Height
Text	Width factor
Text	Obliquing

In case you want to insert for example a circle or more complex geometry you can make a block of it and the insert it with the Explode property set to Yes.

AutoUpd

AutoUpd updates existing drawings based on the control file.
In the process text and attribute values can be changed individually on each new drawing.

It is possible to change both the whole text string or only a part of the text string. If the template drawing contain the text "SHEET #sheetno#" it can be updated to for example "SHEET 1" by specifying #sheetno# as the text to change.

It is also possible to update text found at a location by defining a rectangle with two coordinates. This is for example useful if a title block contains mtext or text objects not being part of a block object.

With the Import from drawings functionality you can get block and attribute information from one or many drawings.

Example on how to search and replace attribute values or text.

Download video showing usage of AutoUpd or see it on YouTube.

Download

A trial of JTB CAD Automation Tools can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site or by contacting us. Purchase is also available through this site.

Full support is provided during trial period that is up to 30 days.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

If you need JTB CAD Automation Tools for AutoCAD 2012 or older please contact us.

JTB CAD Automation Tools 5.9.0.zip for BricsCAD 15 or later, or AutoCAD.

Customers can contact us directly for access to download the full version.

System requirements

AutoCAD 2000 or later or verticals based on AutoCAD, BricsCAD 15 or newer.

All verticals or flavors based on AutoCAD should be working like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), Architectural Desktop (ADT), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

Compatible with those operating systems AutoCAD runs on like Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. and Windows 11.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 50 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

Upgrade license: 25 USD for one license less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

JTB CAD Automation Tools can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site.

Documentation

Installation

Run the installer. Installation path is %ProgramData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTBW-CADAutomationTools.bundle for AutoCAD and %ProgramData%\JTBW-CADAutomationTools for BricsCAD.

Loading

The application will automatically load and also add the Automation Tools panel to the Ribbon tab Plug-ins/Add-ins. Sometimes 'JTB CAD Automation Tools.VLX' needs to be located, it is found in any of the folders of "%ProgramData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTBW-CADAutomationTools.bundle\Contents\Windows" depending on AutoCAD version.

License Activation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Control file creation

The copy button can be used to copy sample files that are in (%ProgramData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTBW-CADAutomationTools.bundle\Contents\JTB CAD Automation Tools for AutoCAD or %ProgramData%\JTBW-CADAutomationTools\Contents\JTB CAD Automation Tools for BricsCAD) to the C:\JTB CAD Automation Tools folder.

This shows an example how to use AutoGen and the steps are similar for the other commands.

Open AutoGenTemplate.xls

Specify path and name for the drawing to be created as well as the path and name for the template to be used.

Use a button to select and populate the template sheet with the path and name for the drawings.

Use a button that automatically save the Excel template to the correct format.

The Control file should be in TXT tab delimited format.
Start with AutoGenTemplate.xls and when ready save as Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt).

Excel 2007 and newer versions supports more than 256 columns. Make sure to save the Excel file to the XLSM format that allows macros.

Usage

Recommendation is to close all drawings and start a new empty drawing.
Start with the commands AutoGen, AutoIns or AutoUpd.
The first time you may be asked for the location of program file.
When asked for control file browse for and select the control file to be used.

AutoGen

Creation of control file

The Control file should be in TXT tab delimited format.

Start with AutoGenTemplate.xlsm and when ready save as Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt).

For an example of the usage take a look at AutoGenSample.xlsm.

The rows 5 and higher are used to define the new drawings to be created.

Column A (row 5 and higher) holds the path to the drawing that will be created.

Column B (row 5 and higher) holds the name of the drawing.

Column C (row 5 and higher) holds the path for the type drawings.

Column D (row 5 and higher) holds the type drawing name that is an existing drawing.

Column E (row 5 and higher) holds the full path to an AutoLISP application that should be loaded. *.lsp;*.vlx;*.fas are supported. This is optional.

Column G and higher are used to define what should be changed in the template before it is saved to a new drawing. Do not leave empty columns in between. For cell G5 and higher add the value that should be updated or added alternatively “**IGNORE**” without the double quotes and it will not be considered.

When only row 1 and 2 has values it is a Block attribute and all instances of that block with that attribute should get the value.

When only row 2 has a value it is an Attribute definition. This is not a good solution but sometimes users explode blocks and edit the attribute definition thinking it is plain text. What is to be done here is that the Attribute definition should be converted into a Text object with the same properties and the new value.

When row 1,2 and 3 has values it all matches should get the value listed. The value will be searched for and replaced. For example: 1111 will search for all occurrences of the text 111 and replace it with the value listed.

When only row 3 has values it is either Text, Mtext, Multileader or Table objects that should be searched and replaced.

Sample

Here is what the template file AutoGen template 1.dwg look like.

After running the command it would look like this. TEST1.dwg

Usage

Recommendation is to close all drawings and open a new empty drawing.

Start with the command AutoGen.

When asked for control file (.TXT) browse for and select the control file to be used.

Test drive

Follow the instructions described under the subheading Usage. Run the AutoGen command and browse for the file AutoGenSample.txt and the resulting new drawings will be created in the NEW folder.

AutoIns

Creation of control file

The Control file should be in TXT tab delimited format.

Start with AutoInsTemplate.xlsm and when ready save as Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt) or use the button Export.

For an example of the usage take a look at AutoInsSample.xlsm.

The rows 23 and higher are used to define the drawings to be updated. To add files the Add files button can be used.

Column A (row 23 and higher) holds the path to the drawing.

Column B (row 23 and higher) holds the name of the drawing.

Column C (row 23 and higher) holds the full path to an AutoLISP application that should be loaded. *.lsp;*.vlx;*.fas are supported. This is optional.

Column E and higher are used to define what should be inserted to the drawing. Do not leave empty columns in between. Row 1 must be any of these values: TEXT, BLOCK or XREF. For blocks and xrefs to be inserted/attached an X should be added in the column in row 23 or higher. For cell E23 and higher add the value “**IGNORE**” without the double quotes and it will not be considered.

See the sample files for how Text, Blocks and Xrefs can be added to existing drawing.

Usage

Recommendation is to close all drawings and start a new empty drawing.

Start with the command AutoIns.

When asked for control file (.TXT) browse for and select the control file to be used.

Test drive

Follow the instructions described under the subheading Usage. Run the AutoIns command and browse for the file AutoInsSample.txt and the resulting new drawings will be created in the NEW folder.

AutoUpd

Description

AutoUpd updates existing drawings based on using a specified control file.

In the process text and attribute values can be changed individually on each drawing.

Find and replace of text or attribute values throughout the whole drawing is supported.

Creation of control file

The Control file should be in TXT tab delimited format.

Start with AutoUpdTemplate.xlsm and when ready save as Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt) or use the button Export.

For an example of the usage take a look at AutoUpdSample.xlsm.

“Import from drawings” button will open “Import from Drawings” sheet that makes it possible to get existing block and attribute information from one or many drawings.

The rows 10 and higher are used to define the drawings to be updated. To add files the Add files button can be used.

Column A (row 10 and higher) holds the path to the drawing.

Column B (row 10 and higher) holds the name of the drawing.

Column C (row 10 and higher) holds the full path to an AutoLISP application that should be loaded. *.lsp;*.vlx;*.fas are supported. This is optional.

Column E and higher are used to define what should be changed in the drawing. Do not leave empty columns in between. For cell E10 and higher add the new value to be used or add the value “**IGNORE**” without the double quotes and it will not be considered.

When only row 1 and 3 has values it is a Block attribute and all instances of that block with that attribute should get the value as specified in row 10 and higher.

When row 2 (Block Handles) is used specific instances of blocks will be processed.

If that Block Handles cell is empty, then, in all drawings, at that layout tab, all blocks of specified “BLOCK ABC” name will have specified attribute “ATTXYZ” updated.

When your drawing model or layout has many “BLOCK ABC” with attributes “ATTXYZ”, and you want to change the attribute value per each block, you have to specify the block handle. Since there is a list of 10 drawings, so, it should be 10 block handles each column.

If in a drawing, you don’t want any change in that column, you can just leave a space there, for example: Block Handles = 125, , , , 555
A special block handle value = * can be used. So, if you want to update all blocks in just a chosen drawing, you can put Block Handles = 125, ,*, 555.
To be compatible with old AutoUpd spreadsheet, Blocks Handles = “” (empty), all drawings and all found blocks in the layout will be updated.

When only row 3 has a value it is an Attribute definition. This is not a good solution but sometimes users explode blocks and edit the attribute definition thinking it is plain text. What is to be done here is that the Attribute definition should be converted into a Text object with the same properties and the new value.

When row 1, 3 and 4 has values it all matches should get the value listed. The value will be searched for and replaced. For example: 1111 will search for all occurrences of the text 111 and replace it with the value listed.

When row 5-8 contains values defining coordinates for a rectangle any Text, Mtext, Multileader or Table objects crossing or within will be searched and replaced. If the value in row 4 is empty existing value will be completely replaced.

When only row 4 has values it is either Text, Mtext, Multileader or Table objects that should be searched and replaced.

Row 9 is used to specify what layout will be updated.

For search and replace of attribute values in the whole drawing:

To have it working add * in Block name (row 1) and/or Attribute Tag (row 3). This way you can find and replace among all attributes for one specific block or all blocks.

You can also find and replace on a specific attribute tag or any attribute tag. Examples of combinations that work:
Block name: *
Attribute Tag: *

Block name: *
Attribute Tag: NAME

Block name: FRAME
Attribute Tag: *

Block name: FRAME
Attribute Tag: NAME

Usage

Recommendation is to close all drawings and start a new empty drawing.

Start with the command AutoUpd.

When asked for control file (.TXT) browse for and select the control file to be used.

Test drive

Follow the instructions described under the subheading Usage. Run the AutoUpd command and browse for the file AutoUpdSample.txt and the resulting new drawings will be created in the NEW folder.

This shows AutoUpd sample 1.dwg before updated.

This shows AutoUpd sample 1.dwg after updated.

Download video showing usage of AutoUpd or see it on YouTube.

Vault tips:

Check out a folder to Work Space.
Run the tools on the files.
Check folder back into vault.

Tips and tutorial from the blog:

AutoCAD Automation Tools attribute text search and replace

**IGNORE** can be used as a value if you don't want JTB CAD Automation to affect the value for a specific combination of drawing and attribute/text.

Trouble Shooting

If the program is not working as expected run "Reset JTB CAD Automation Tools.reg" found in the installation folder and merge it to the registry to reset the paths.

Check AutoCAD's or BricsCAD's command line when you start a new drawing and see if there are some errors. This can cause the program to halt. One indication on this problem is that AutoGen produces the new drawings but does not update them.

If you have old templates they might not be compatible with most recent template format. Check that they are matching.

Known limitations

Search and replace is case sensitive
Wish: add support for handling dynamic blocks and their special properties
Wish: add support for handling dynamic blocks for AutoUpd Excel sheet "Import from drawings" function

License agreement

The license agreement is found here

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 5.9.0
- Added AutoCAD 2023 support
2021-09-12 - version 5.8.1
- Fixed error in AutoUpd Excel spreadsheet when a text is exported as "###" when the cell is not wide enough.
2021-08-09 - version 5.8.0
- Fixed AutoUpd to work with coordinate selection and if the layout specified is not current.
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-04-13 - version 5.7.2
- Added AutoCAD 2022 support
2020-07-25 - version 5.7.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-08 - version 5.7.0
- Added AutoCAD 2021 support
2019-10-15 - version 5.6.4
- Fixed bug in AutoIns when block has attributes.
- Fixed restoring of some system variables.
2019-06-30 - version 5.6.3
- Add notification when AutoCAD has no license to run
- One installer for AutoCAD and BricsCAD
- After purchase the download you get will give you 30 extra days before you need to request and apply the license key
2019-04-22 - version 5.6.2
- Fixed restoring some system variables after using the app
- AutoUpd updated with flexibility of using handles
- Installer now installs to %ProgramData%
- Uninstall previous version before updating
2019-03-28 - version 5.6.1
- Added support for AutoCAD 2020.
- Updated installer.
2018-05-21 - version 5.6
- Updates to documentation
2018-03-22 - version 5.5 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2019 (no version number change)
2018-03-13 - version 5.5
- Added support and installer for BricsCAD up to version 18.
- Add block handles row in AutoUpd. In case there are 2 or more blocks of same name, this handles row helps to identify and populate changes to each block accordingly.
- Add new licensing function, including Network license feature.
2017-08-16 - version 5.3
- Fixed bug in AUTOINS command that showed error "no function definition: XREFPATHTYPE".
2017-07-20 - version 5.2
- Fixed bugs in AutoUpd command
- Fix bugs when attribute text is changed by Excel because it is formatted as number or formula
- Add sorting options in AutoUpd Excel file
- Minor changes for better user experience
2017-05-31 - version 5.1
- Fixed bug where Add drawings button may add a drawing on row 9
- Fixed bug where processing of custom LSP files did not work as expected
2017-03-21 - version 5.0 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2018 (no version number change)
2016-05-25 - version 5.0
- Updated Excel files to handle export when cells contains only . or , characters.
- Fixed issues in AutoUpd Excel files that could cause issues between 32-bit and 64-bit.
- AutoUpd Excel files function to Import from Drawings updated.
- Changed from using .XLS to .XLSM files.
- Excel export supports different language settings for decimal symbol and date formats and other custom formats.
- Digitally signed .XLSM files.
- Some bugs fixed.
2016-03-22 - version 4.2
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017 (no version number change)
2015-04-14 - version 4.2
- AutoCAD 2016 support
- AutoUpd can now import block and attribute data from drawings
- New app name: JTB CAD Automation Tools
2013-05-12 - version 4.1
- AutoCAD 2014 support
- AutoUpd got added support for finding text within a rectangle defined by a couple of coordinates and have it updated.
2012-07-09 - version 4.0
- AutoCAD 2013 support
- Support for multiline attributes
- Support for table objects
- Support for multileader text
- Support for mtext with more than 250 characters can be searched and replaced
- Search and replace, replaces not only the first found occurrence now
- -AutoGen, -AutoInst, -AutoUpd working as command line versions
- AutoGen has the option to quit AutoCAD when run as the command line version -AutoGen
- AutoUpd now supports what tabs to be affected
- More options to determine tabs/layouts to be affected. Thus old Excel or txt templates may not work as expected. AllLayouts* is renamed to LayoutTabs*. "Model space" renamed to ModelTab*. "Paper space" renamed to CurrentLayoutTab*
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Solved a problem to run on some older AutoCAD versions
2011-06-14 - version 3.5
- AutoUpd has support for layouts
- It is possible to search for a part of TEXT, MTEXT or block attribute and replace the whole with a new value.
- 30-day trial available
- Wcmatch logic used to search for values using wildcards.
- The Excel templates have been changed, make sure to use the new ones.
2010-08-03 - version 3.4
- Support for dynamic blocks added to AutoGen.
- Cells with “**IGNORE**” will not be considered.
- Fixed bug so that different AutoLISP files can be loaded on different drawings.
- Minor bug fix in reading the control file.
2010-01-03 - version 3.4 beta available upon request
- Support for dynamic blocks added.
2010-01-02 - version 3.3
- Minor fixes to improve export from Excel
2009-12-23 - version 3.2
- Minor fixes that for some users might make the commands not working at all.
2009-12-14 - version 3.1
- Fixes some problems found after version 3.0
2009-11-09 - version 3.0
- Works now with MDI (SDI=0) instead of SDI (SDI=1).
- Find and replace attribute values.
- Works with Bricscad 10.
- After upgrading you might need to recreate the control
- files with the new Excel sheet.
2009-06-08 - version 2.2
- Makes it possible to insert objects to all layouts with the AutoIns command.
- Remember the folder browsed for.
- Minor bug fixes.
2008-12-06 - version 2.1
- Minor update to allow only execution of an AutoLISP file without having to add any other action.
- Installer added to simplify the installation process.
- Add files in the Excel templates improved. Now a folder can be selected and all drawing files in the folder and subfolders are added. New files are also added at the row you have selected making it easier to select files from different folders.
2008-07-14 - version 2.0
- Added support to execute an optional AutoLISP file on each drawing.
2008-03-11 - version 1.0
- First release

Customers

Customer testimonials

"I am very happy with this product."

One user had "4700 drawings to update" with different title blocks and was able to do it quickly with JTB CAD Automation Tools.

"This is a super helpful tool for us and I cannot describe how many hours I have saved thanks to this program" - says a happy user.

"This product is very helpful and worth every penney."

"The AutoCAD Automation Tools from JTB World save me a lot of time when editing individual files, and there have been many times when I couldn’t have met deadlines without them."
Don McLeod, Electrical Engineer
PENTA Engineering, P.A.
Charlotte, NC

Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Jedson Engineering Inc.

EDG Engineering Consultant Firm

Santos Australia

IKKAB

PENTA Engineering

The Newtron Group

Star Seismic

BIMcorp

Quantum Design

Roberts

HH Technology

Cybertech Group of Companies

HeavensHillsideFarms&More, Inc

Triad Control Systems

Emerson Process Management PWS India Pvt. Ltd.

STEPAN

Graphikee Technologies Pte Ltd

Mott MacDonald Australia

Cad3 Limited

ITAC

Alliance Automation

Qualitek

Novozymes

Cadit Solutions Pty Ltd

Infelmar Oy

Emerson Automation Solutions

Jord International

GOIZEA, S.L.

More customers are found here .

About

Edit properties on multiple sheets belonging to Sheet Set Manager (SSM) for AutoCAD, GstarCAD and BricsCAD, NanoCAD Plus/Pro, Graebert's ARES Commander 2022 and newer, DraftSight 2021 and newer, or AutoCAD Architecture's Project Navigator (PN) Sheet Set View with ease. If you want to change properties like a revision, date or name on two or more sheets at the same time SSMPropEditor is for you. Your productivity will increase and you will save time avoiding a lot of manual work.

Sheet Set Properties, Sheet Set Custom Properties, Sheet Properties and Sheet Custom Properties can be edited and bulk updated.

Copy Sheet Properties from one sheet to one or multiple other sheets.

Copy Sheet Set Properties from one Sheet Set to another. If the property itself is not existing in the destination Sheet Set it will be created.

Increment revisions quickly on multiple sheets.

Paste the total sheet count to any property.

Optionally rename the actual drawing file associated with the sheet.

Optionally rename actual layout name on the drawing file associated with the sheet.

Export all Sheet or Sheet Set Properties information to a text file or an Excel file.

Import back the exported file after manual changes have been made. Search or Find and replace can be used for example in Notepad or Excel.

Find and replace text values on properties.

Launch your DWG application from the tree view opening the sheet drawing. The application could for example be AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT or TrueView.

Workaround when sheet title contains unsupported characters? Have you got “The name cannot be longer than 64 characters”? SSMPropEditor can help with this.

Integration with Vault and vaulted Sheet Sets and support for DSS, DSU and DSH files.

Can be used without any CAD software being installed.

SSMPropEditor will save you time and money and make you less frustrated when you don't need to edit one sheet at a time.

Update and correct non-existing paths to improve performance of the Sheet Set Manager.

The installer now adds Edit With SSMPropEditor to Windows Explorer context menu for DST files. "Add Edit With SSMPropEditor to Explorer.reg" and "Remove Edit With SSMPropEditor to Explorer.reg" are added to installation folder and can be used manually.

When it comes to Sheet Set Manager performance within AutoCAD (and possibly other CAD applications) there can be several reasons. There are a few things that can be done to tune it in. Take a look at these posts:
Performance tips when using SSM
Sheet Set Manager performance tips
Try also to temporary disable the anti-virus and then try SSM. If it is quicker there might be ways to configure it to exclude AutoCAD.

DST Converter

The DST converter is useful for IT or CAD Managers to correct performance problems with SSM Sheet Sets that started to perform badly. The program converts a DST file to an XML file that can be edited in an XML editor or Notepad and then converted back to DST. One customer used it to replace some dead paths in an SSM file and made a 50 sheet set of construction dwgs each open in 20 seconds instead of the 1½-2 minutes it was taking. Another customer found that the size of the DST was increasing more than reasonable and was able to manually compress and remove erroneous data. Eventually found out that changing the "include in publish" status was what caused the bloat.

There is no trial for DST Converter but if you open a DST file in SSMPropEditor a corresponding XML file will be created in the %TEMP% folder so you can review the format of it. Purchase details.

For one customer there were two "nodes" in this path: AcSmDatabase\AcSmSheetSet\AcSmPublishOptions each named "AcSmCustomPropertyBag" that each contained over 8MB of data. He deleted these nodes and converted the XML back to a DST and everything is OK.

So for some reason, it looks like changing the "include in publish" status (at least in this particular SS) is causing the bloat.

DST Converter can also be used to merge Sheet Sets.

Merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD, NanoCAD Plus/Pro and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files with our JTB DST Tool.

Download

SSMPropEditor works for 30 days in trial mode with full functionality. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

Current version is 2022.4.0. This installer will also install SSMPropEditor as AutoCAD app. This will install a Plug-ins/Add-ins Ribbon tab panel in AutoCAD 2012 up to AutoCAD 2023 as well as verticals. (Menu will not show up in AutoCAD LT).

SSMPropEditor 2022.4.0 installer.zip
Older versions available here.

SSMPropEditor can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

.NET Framework 4.7.2 or later.

Operating system - Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2016. Both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Contact us if there's a need for support for older Windows versions. Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Server might still work.

To rename the actual layout name full AutoCAD 2013 or newer needs to be installed.

The software runs stand-alone and does not require AutoCAD or other CAD software to be installed unless renaming of actual layout name should be done.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2005 and up to AutoCAD 2023) that has Sheet Set Manager (SSM). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), Architectural Desktop (ADT), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D. Compatible with AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD LT, etc.
Compatible with BricsCAD V13 and newer.
Compatible with GstarCAD 2015 and newer.
Compatible with NanoCAD Plus/Pro 8.0 and newer.
Graebert's ARES Commander 2022 and newer.
DraftSight 2021 and newer.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

SSMPropEditor

New license: 95 USD for one license of SSMPropEditor or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

SSMPropEditor can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Use this link to purchase.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license of SSMPropEditor or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

The network license system is available at no extra cost and normally most useful for companies with quite many licenses. The network license is priced the same but you basically need a license per user anyway as the license will be locked to that user for 4 weeks after last usage.
Reason is that this app is not such that you keep it running for an extended time. But the network license helps when you have many licenses as each computer does not need to be activated through us.
There is volume discount available with purchase of multiple licenses.

DST Converter

10 USD for one license of DST Converter or less depending on the quantity of licenses. When your purchase is completed you will get an email with the DST Converter download.

If you want more functionality and ease of use take a look at our JTB DST Tool as it can merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

The license is perpetual (as a minimum for the version available when purchased) and support is included. If you have more than one computer and you are the only user of the application one license is enough.

Documentation

JTB SSMPropEditor documentation

Version History

Known issues in latest release and possibly older releases:

Editing model view paths is not working.
Changing language within the application requires to restart it to avoid unexpected problems.
Vault 2021 is by default supported. Contact us for other versions to be supported.

Most recent and previous versions:

2022-04-25 - version 2022.4.0
- Fixed bugs related to rename of file name and layout both within the app and when importing.
- Add handling of ignoring empty rows in imported Excel file.
- Corrected handling of DST icon in Explorer.

Complete JTB SSMPropEditor version history here.

Wishes and feature requests

Optionally have a spread sheet view or grid to edit the values in.
To manually rearrange the sheets or subsets and view categories.
Rename categories. (Can be done with help of our JTB DST Tool)
To be able to plot using for example AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.
Ability to rearrange the “Locations” (folders) under the Model Views Tab and the same ability to rearrange the “Categories” under the Sheet Views Tab.
Support to manipulate the .APJ project files for AutoCAD, Inventor and more..
The ability to move sheet views from one sheet to another, while maintaining linked callouts. ref
Add new or delete custom properties.
Change case. (Workaround is to export to Excel, change case and import)
Spell check. (Workaround is to export to Excel, spell check and import)
Delete selected sheets or subset including sheets.
Tool to help migrate data from old title blocks with normal attributes to attributes with fields connected to the sheet set.
Create a new sheet set from scratch based on data in an Excel file or the like with either using existing drawings or creating new ones. (Can be done with help of our JTB Sheet Set Creator)
Enable the use of page up / page down for moving from one sheet to the next while maintaining the focus on same property (for example, editing sheet title on page 5, press page down, and your cursor is in the position to edit the sheet title on page 6.. page 7 etc)
Ability to add prefix or suffix to an existing property, including the ability to add to multiple sheets (similar to indexing’s functionality, but maintaining the existing value for each page).
To sort properties in a custom order. Saved settings in a separate file saved in same folder as the DST. Still this sort order will not show when you run SSM within AutoCAD.
Create subsets.
Duplicate existing subset.
Ability to remove multiple subsets at once or even deleting a subset and all the sheets associated with it. Having to delete multiple sheets is at once is excellent but would like to do the same with subsets.
Edit subset properties.
Edit subset custom properties. Not yet available in AutoCAD's Sheet Set Manager.
Add alphabetic indexing as an option to Sheet Indexing.
Combine Sheet Sets / Merge Sheet Sets. (Can be done with help of our JTB DST Tool)
Split Sheet Set in two or more Sheet Sets. (Can be done with help of our JTB DST Tool)
Edit saved sheet selections.
Rename subsets within the application. (Can be done with help of our JTB DST Tool)
Rename drawings similar to what is possible in the Sheet Set Manager by adding sheet number to the file name.
Rename Sheet Custom Property names and Sheet Set Custom Property names. (Can be done with help of our JTB DST Tool)
Include all functionality that SSM has. (this is not likely to happen)
Edit Sheet Views information. Possibly export/import to Excel.
Rename renumber Sheet views.
Support for cloud storage like Autodesk BIM 360.

If you too have a need for any of these wishes please contact us so we know how big the need for it is and can prioritize accordingly.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Some SSMPropEditor customers and their comments

"I have been using this for years. ... if you're using sheet set manager, this program is a must have. You can renumber hundreds of sheets within seconds. The investment is well worth it." - James Mcclendon

"JTBWorld has some really great tools on his site. I actually bought a personal license for his Sheet Set Property Editor that makes backups of your DST file each time you open one in the application. If you use Sheet Set Manager for your projects, I'd recommend getting yourself a license as well. It's so helpful." - Archie Dodge

"I've been using this for years, it's straightforward, constantly updated, extremely useful for fixing bloated sheetset managers that end up with hard coded paths pointing to null server locations and other problems easily edited with notepad++" - John Hammer

"Sheet Set Savior - I purchased the full version and its worth every penny. If you deal with Sheet Sets often, especially large lets, this product will save you time if you have to renumber a set i.e. "5 of 80". It took me about 20 seconds to renumber a 120 page plan set." - James Mcclendon

"This program is one of the best values for the money we spent. I have mentioned this to management several times. The program and the support is above and beyond. "

"I love the SSMPropEditor, by the way. It's the coolest thing since sliced bread."

“I love your SSMPropEditor. I’ve used it on two major projects this past week and it has saved me at least a day, maybe two, over others here not using the SSM. The SSM speeds up productivity, but the SSM Properties Editor makes it feasible considering you can have titles 64 characters long and longer, plus special characters. The ability to change properties on multiple sheets at once is something that really makes this worth having. I was able to change 45 sheet title blocks in a matter of minutes.” - Archie Dodge

"I've just sent out a final issue of some 40-50 drawings for a project that I've been working on all year. I only needed to use the Prop editor once, but it worked 'exactly like it said on the tin'. Excellent! Why don't Autodesk do this already?
Great product." - Happy customer.

I've purchased The SSMPropEditor and It's the best investment I have made in my life. I'm editing custom sheet set data regarding drawn-by and checked by and lot of other data for hundreds of sheets in seconds while it took me days to do it - quote on AUGI

Thanks for your support Jimmy. We managed to rename the Layouts as well. This app deserves 10 stars unfortunately I can only give 5. Best AutoCAD app available out there. - Francisco Barbieri

A new customer about SSMPropEditor: It's like Christmas and Birthday together! :-)

Really wish I would have had this program several times in my career. It would have saved me a ton of work.

"Excellent!!! Huge time saver
I haven't done extensive testing on this app yet but it's already saved me tons of work. Templates are great but there are simply times when you need to "retrofit" elements to existing sheet sets. In my case I was looking to roll out a drawing revision block that is driven by Sheet Set custom properties across +15 sets with 20+ sheets. This app has allowed me to just copy/paste. Honestly I think this functionality should be baked into AutoCAD from the get go but JTB World has done a great job filling the gap! I strongly recommend it."

"As a Cad Support person with Brisbane City Council (Australia) I have been responsible for the implementation of Sheet Set Manager within AutoCad and AutoCad Map 3D. This initiation was overall excepted well, however one of the few complaints I have received is the inability of editing multiple drawing (often in excess of 100 drawings) Titleblock information (SSM Titleblock Fields.

I found "SSMPropEditor" on JTB World's Website (a website I visit regularly). I organised for an evaluation licence and used SSMPropEditor on a number of large projects Brisbane City Council are currently involved with. All Cad Users involved with these Projects and using SSMPropEditor commented how much easier and quicker it made editing mutiple drawings. The main comment was ... "when can we buy it".

As a result Brisbane City Council will be purchasing "SSMPropEditor" (multiple copies) and are extremely happy with exactly how this software works. It enhances the use of Sheet Set Manager within AutoCad products.

A big thank you to JTB World"

Glen McCarley
Design Project Manager
City Design - Engineering Group
Roads and Traffic
Brisbane City Council

"I believe everyone should be using AutoCAD's Sheet Set Manager, as it greatly improves drawing management. I also believe everyone should be using your Sheet Set Property Editor and Sheet Set Path Editor. Both tools greatly improve AutoCAD's Sheet Set Manager. Our users have indicated that using your software allows them to update the title block data more effectively and efficiently, thus saving time with drawing revisions and submissions." - Keith Biggs, CAD Technical Coordinator, RF Binnie & Associates Ltd.

HOLY COW THERE MR JB where has this software been all my life, thanks for taking off at least a day of frustration per job now it takes only 15 min.

"This tool is a lifesaver!"

"I would be lost without this APP!!! Such a huge time saver!"

What I have used it for today, it’s awesome. I hate to think how many hours I’ve wasted without it in the past. - Kevin

This makes a WORLD of difference applying the same properties to multiple custom sheet properties!

I really appreciate your support. SSMPropEditor is by far the best app I've seen for AutoCAD it will safe us a lot of time. We will be certainly buying a license.

"Thank you again for such a wonderful program and the support that you have given since our purchase. This has to be one of the best values for our money. Highly recommend this program for anyone who uses SheetSets."

This software is a huge boost to production!

More JTB SSMPropEditor customers here.

SSMPropEditor will help you save time and money when working with multiple sheets in the Sheet Set Manager.

SSMPropEditor can help with: AutoCAD Sheet Set, AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager, AutoCAD Sheet Set performance, AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager performance, ACAD SSM, SSM performance issues, AutoCAD Sheet Set Properties, AutoCAD Sheet Properties and much more.

If you want to create Sheet Sets and their properties in an automated manner take a look at our JTB Sheet Set Creator.

Merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files with our JTB DST Tool.

JTB Batch Publish app publishes sheets in Sheet Sets to files like PDF and DWF with advanced naming functionality.

JTB Sheet Set Renumber to update running sheet numbers and total in title blocks.

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

More Sheet Set Manager resources:

Sheet Set Manager performance issue with Windows 2008 R2 server with SMB V2 active
Slow Sheet Set Manager solution
How to use unsupported characters in Sheet Set Manager
Sheet Set Manager productivity tips on sheet indexing like how to solve the problem with Sheet X of Y or Page X of Y showing up on the title block
How to rename a Sheet Set dst file
Sheet Set Manager performance tips
Sheet Set Manager tutorial, tips and tricks
Clear sticky Sheet Sets from Recent Documents List in AutoCAD
Add a comma to the sheet title of a sheet in AutoCAD
Performance tips when using SSM
AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager properties shows '----' when you don't want to
Sheet Set Manager Documentation
How to rename Sheet Set or Sheet Custom Property names

About

Merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD, GstarCAD, NanoCAD Plus/Pro, Graebert's ARES Commander 2022 and newer, and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files. For example AutoCAD's Sheet Set Manager (SSM) or AutoCAD Architecture's Project Navigator (PN) Sheet Set View.

Merge one or more sheet sets into another.

Fields for Sheet Views will be updated (requires AutoCAD) as needed.

The purging is useful for IT or CAD Managers to correct performance problems with SSM Sheet Sets that started to perform badly. Sometimes the DST file can grow unreasonable large and the purging can help.

After converting from DST to XML advanced edits can be made like renaming Sheet Set Custom Property names, Sheet Custom Property names, subset names, view category names and most anything else and then convert the XML back to DST. Edits of the XML can be done in Notepad or an XML editor.

Fix File Path option 1: automatically find and fix reference file and folder paths.
If you move your project files, restructure the folders, you may find that in your Sheet Sets, many file and folder paths are marked as missing or not found. Click this command button will help you fix the issue. Assuming the dst file is in the out-most folder, the app will try to find all missing files and folders paths inside the dst file's folder structure.

Fix File Path option 2: find and replace a text portion in all reference file and folder paths. This is replacing our old JTB SSM Path Edit (SSMPathEdit) app.

Download

The JTB DST Tool trial is limited to work with 3 sample files that are included.

Current version is 2.3.0. This is a freestanding app running with no need for any CAD software.

JTB DST Tool Setup.zip

JTB DST Tool trial as AutoCAD app

For AutoCAD 2015 and newer purchase or download JTB DST Tool trial as an AutoCAD app on Autodesk App Store site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

After purchase click on the "Activate" button and follow instruction to receive the activation key from JTB World. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

System requirements

.NET Framework 4 or later - Download at Microsoft.com

Operating system - Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2012 Server.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Older Windows versions might also work but are not directly supported.

The software runs stand-alone and does mostly not require AutoCAD or other CAD software to be installed. For merging Sheet Views AutoCAD is required.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2005 and up to AutoCAD 2023) that has Sheet Set Manager (SSM) as well as AutoCAD LT. Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), Architectural Desktop (ADT), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.
Compatible with BricsCAD V13 and newer.
Compatible with GstarCAD 2015 and newer.
Compatible with NanoCAD Plus/Pro 8.0 and newer.
Graebert's ARES Commander 2022 and newer.
DraftSight 2021 and newer.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 50 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. After purchase click on the "Activate" button and follow instruction to receive the activation key from JTB World. We normally try to reply within 24 hours.

Upgrade license: 25 USD for one license less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

Purchase JTB DST Tool from the Autodesk App Store site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Documentation

Setup procedure

Run installer .exe to install JTB DST Tool and follow the instructions. Default installation folder is C:\Program Files\JTB World\JTB DST Tool. Alternatively for AutoCAD app installer it is %appdata%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB DST Tool.bundle.
To run the program you find it on the Windows Start menu>All Programs>JTB DST Tool alternatively for AutoCAD app on the Plug-ins/Add-ins tab within AutoCAD.
If purchased, click on Activate button. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

To install unattended here's an example:
"JTB DST Tool <version>.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\JTB DST Tool.LOG”

To install unattended and also activate a network license here's an example:
"JTB DST Tool <version.exe" /server="myservernamehere" /port=56712 /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\JTB DST Tool.LOG”

Usage

Run JTB Sheet Set DST Tool.exe from the installation folder or start JTB DST Tool from the Windows Start menu.

If JTB DST Tool app for AutoCAD has been used for installation the application will automatically load in AutoCAD and also add the JTB World panel to the Ribbon tab Plug-ins/Add-ins.

Run DSTTOOL command in AutoCAD or click on the button in the Ribbon menu. This app will help you:

+ Merge DST files. If similar subsets found, they will be merged into 1 subset. Sheet View text fields in drawings will be updated by a batch run via AutoCAD's Core Console.

+ Merge-Copy DST files: using this method, regardless subsets duplication, DST files data will be added one after another. Sheet View text fields in drawings will be updated by a batch run via AutoCAD's Core Console.

+ Purge unused info in DST files to reduce filesize.

+ Convert DST files to XML format and back. Useful for if manual edits needs to be done to the file. Use for Notepad or XML Notepad or other XML editor.

+ After converting from DST to XML advanced edits can be made like renaming Sheet Set Custom Property names, Sheet Custom Property names, subset names, view category names and most anything else and then convert the XML back to DST. Edits of the XML can be done in Notepad or an XML editor. See our blog post How to rename Sheet Set or Sheet Custom Property names for details.

After modified, DST file will be backed up in the same folder.

Fix File Path option 2: find and replace a text portion in all reference file and folder paths. This is replacing our old JTB SSM Path Edit (SSMPathEdit) app.

Some Sheet Set Manager resources:

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.3.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2023.
- Fixed bug when a filereference item in the DST has nothing inside it causing failure.
2022-01-24 - version 2.2.0
- Fix bugs in Merge command.
- Minor improvement in the file dialog window.
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-06-04 - version 2.1.2
- Fixed error DST file is not saved if it is open exclusively and locked by another app.
2021-04-13 - version 2.1.1
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2022 support.
2021-02-08 - version 2.1.0
- Fixed missing sheets in Sheet List Table after merging
2020-11-20 - version 2.0.0
- Added support for Sheet Views to merge and update to Merge command. Sheet View text fields in drawings will be updated by a batch run via AutoCAD's Core Console.
2020-08-09 - version 1.8.0.2
- Fixed a file missing error in the installer
2020-07-25 - version 1.8.0.1
- Fixed a file missing error in the installer
2020-07-20 - version 1.8.0
- Upgraded to License 4.3
- Fix reference paths: Find and Replace option added
2020-05-08 - version 1.7.0
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2021 support.
2019-03-28 - version 1.6.1
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2020 support.
- Add "Fix File Paths" command.
2018-03-22 - version 1.5
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support.
- Minor adjustments.
2017-10-23 - version 1.4
- Added ability to merge custom properties when DST files are merged.
- Added network license feature.
2017-03-21 - version 1.3
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2018
2017-02-14 - version 1.2
- Fixed a bug in trial mode, related to decimal symbol
2016-10-03 - version 1.1
- First public release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

CDG Engineers

Engel & Company, Inc.

FMJ Projects

Taylor Engineering

Moffatt & Nichol

Olsson Associates

Reardon Smith Architects Ltd.

Precision Geomatics Inc.

BL Companies

Freese and Nichols, Inc.

PulteGroup Inc

Rail Planning Services

Brisbane City Council

RFS Architects

Rail Planning Services

PulteGroup Inc

Engel & Company, Inc.

Freese and Nichols, Inc.

FMJ Projects

BL Companies

ANDDES ASOCIADOS S.A.C.

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If you want to edit Sheet Sets see our SSMPropEditor app or if you want to create Sheet Sets and their properties in an automated manner take a look at our JTB Sheet Set Creator.

JTB Batch Publish app publishes sheets in Sheet Sets to files like PDF and DWF with advanced naming functionality.

JTB Sheet Set Renumber to update running sheet numbers and total in title blocks.

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

Make use of AutoCAD together with an external database. Block attribute values can automatically be updated back and forth to one or many external databases. If you make changes to the attribute values they can be synchronized back to the external database or the other way around.

There are three sync methods available and can be set individually for each attribute to synchronize.

Sync in both directions.
Sync only from the drawing to the database.
Sync only from the database to the drawing.

Some information might be useful to sync in both directions while other information like dimensions needs AutoCAD to be the owner. Other information like price might best be owned by the database.

Information in the title block as well as revisions is something that can be synchronized.

More flexibility and functionality than the standard AutoCAD commands EATTEXT, DATAEXTRACTION, ATTIN and ATTOUT.

ACAD_db will improve your work process and experience and will improve quality of your data and remove redundancy and conflicts of data and information.

Support for blocks in both model space and paper space and in multiple layouts. Fields of all types like Sheet Set Manager properties are supported but then sync only from drawing to the database.

Dynamic blocks are supported.

A Setup Window for the database table JTBW_AttSync is available to ease the task to create the connection between the database and the drawing.

Advance Edit Row:

Multi-line attributes are not yet supported but support for them can be added if and when needed.

Download

Installer for version 4.3.0: JTB ACAD_db_4.3.0.zip.

Sample Access database and drawing are included with the installer.

ACAD_db_SQL.zip (114KB). Sample database for SQL Server/SQL Server Express.

ACAD_db_Oracle.zip Needed if Oracle will be used as database.

System requirements

AutoCAD 2008,AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011,AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD 2013, AutoCAD 2014, AutoCAD 2015, AutoCAD 2016 , AutoCAD 2017, AutoCAD 2018, AutoCAD 2019, AutoCAD 2020, AutoCAD 2021, AutoCAD 2022, AutoCAD 2023. Verticals with version 2008-2020 like AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Civil Design, AutoCAD Civil Design 3D, AutoCAD Civil Design Professional, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP, AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel and AutoCAD Structural Detailing.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit is supported.
AutoCAD LT is not and will not be supported.

Any database like Access (MDB or .accdb) or SQL Server that can be connected with dbConnect within AutoCAD is supported. Other examples are SQL Server Express, Oracle, ODBC, etc. AutoCAD 64-bit does only support Access 2010/2013/2016 64-bit or the free Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider/Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable or Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable.
Excel is not supported as it is not a real database.

If you run 64bit AutoCAD you cannot have 32bit Office installed and also connect to MS Access database. If installing Office 64-bit is not an option, some have said that it works to uninstall Office, then install the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 and after that install Office again. Another workaround could be to use SQL Server or SQL Server Express as backend and then MS Access 32-bit as a frontend.

Any operating system that can run the above is supported from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 150 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses. When your purchase is completed you will get an email (sent manually) typically within 24 hours with the license file.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

Upgrade license: 75 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Click here to see how to activate the license.

Documentation

Documentation for version 4.0.5 here.

Setup procedure

Using the JTB ACAD_db <version>.exe installer will install to program into %ProgramData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTBW-ACAD_db.bundle (Sample Access database and drawing in C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB ACAD_db.bundle\Contents\)

Loading to AutoCAD will be done automatically and menu available on the Add-ins tab.

Activation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Usage

Prepare the database that holds information on what block and attributes to synchronize and where.

Make sure there is an UDL file (data source) that points out the location of the main database.

In the CAD program use AcDbSettings command to specify what data source to use as the main database.

Run the AcDbMake command to make new/existing drawing possible to sync.

Now use either just open and save/close the drawing or use any of the commands AcDbOut or AcDbIn to sync information into CAD or out from CAD.

The command line will show full details on if there are any problems and what data has been synchronized.

Tutorial on How to sync block attribute values with a database using ACAD_db.

For more details see the Documentation.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 4.3.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2023
2021-07-09 - version 4.2.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-04-13 - version 4.1.2
- Added support for AutoCAD 2022
2020-07-24 - version 4.1.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-09 - version 4.1.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2021
2019-08-19 - version 4.0.5
- Added error handler when user adds an invalid column name.
2019-07-30 - version 4.0.4
- Added error notification when the DBID column is missing.
- Automatically add ParentBlockName and ParentBlockHandle columns.
- Updated sample database.
2019-07-15 - version 4.0.3
- Fixed compatibility issue with the new version of the grid.
2019-05-28 - version 4.0.2
- Remember last used selections in Settings window of JTBW_AttSync.
- Fully upgraded the source code and installation.
- Settings window of JTBW_AttSync.
2019-03-28 - version 3.0 update
- Support for AutoCAD 2020 based products.
2018-04-12 - version 3.0
- Support for AutoCAD 2019 based products.
- Added support for future versions of ACE OLEDB database provider
- Installer added
- Various bug fixes
2012-10-08 - version 2.0
- Support for AutoCAD 2013 based products.
- Support for Oracle database.
- Fixed a sync bug when NETLOAD is used.
2010-08-23 - version 1.1 beta
- Support for MS Access 2010 64-bit and the free Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider.
2009-10-26 - version 1.0
- First public release.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

More customers are found here

ACAD_db will help you expand and improve your BIM process or information exchange between AutoCAD and an external database.

About

Make use of AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD MEP, AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D more fully in your BIM process. Property Set values can automatically be updated back and forth to one or many external databases. If you make changes to the Extended Data values within a Property Set they can be synchronized back to the external database. Any Property in a Property Set Definition can be exported and all editable Properties can be imported.

ACA_db will improve the BIM process and experience and will improve quality of your data and remove redundancy and conflicts of data.

Download

Try it for free for 30 days.

ACA_db 6.1.0 ACA 2017, ACA 2018, ACA 2019, ACA 2020, ACA 2021, ACA 2022 and ACA 2023.

ACA_db_samples.zip Access and SQL Server sample databases.

Script to create MySQL database.

Alternatively download from Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Older versions:

aca_db 2017-2020.zip (228KB) ACA 2017, ACA 2018, ACA 2019 and ACA 2020. Version 4.2

ACA_db_2016_4_1.zip (157KB) only for 2016. Version 4.1 supporting 32-bit and 64-bit.

ACA_db_2013_4_1.zip (156KB) only for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Version 4.1 supporting 32-bit and 64-bit.

ACA_db_2010_4_1.zip (159KB) only for 2010, 2011 and 2012. Version 4.1 supporting 32-bit and 64-bit.

ACA_db_2010.zip (236KB) only for 2010, 2011 and 2012. Version 3.0. 32-bit only.

ACA_db_2009.zip (236KB) only for 2009-versions. Version 3.0. 32-bit only.

ACA_db_2008.zip (236KB) only for 2008-versions. Version 3.0. 32-bit only.

System requirements

AutoCAD Architecture 2023 (ACA 2023) or AutoCAD MEP 2023 (AMEP 2023) or AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D 2023 (and older).

AutoCAD Architecture 2022 (ACA 2022) or AutoCAD MEP 2022 (AMEP 2022) or AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D 2022 (and older).

AutoCAD Architecture 2021 (ACA 2021) or AutoCAD MEP 2021 (AMEP 2021) or AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D 2021 (and older).

AutoCAD Architecture 2020 (ACA 2020) or AutoCAD MEP 2020 (AMEP 2020) or AutoCAD Map 3D or AutoCAD Civil 3D 2020 (and older).
AutoCAD Architecture 2019 (ACA 2019) or AutoCAD MEP 2019 (AMEP 2019).
AutoCAD Architecture 2018 (ACA 2018) or AutoCAD MEP 2018 (AMEP 2018).
AutoCAD Architecture 2017 (ACA 2017) or AutoCAD MEP 2017 (AMEP 2017).
AutoCAD Architecture 2016 (ACA 2016) or AutoCAD MEP 2016 (AMEP 2016).
AutoCAD Architecture 2015 (ACA 2015) or AutoCAD MEP 2015 (AMEP 2015).
AutoCAD Architecture 2014 (ACA 2014) or AutoCAD MEP 2014 (AMEP 2014).
AutoCAD Architecture 2013 (ACA 2013) or AutoCAD MEP 2013 (AMEP 2013).
AutoCAD Architecture 2012 (ACA 2012) or AutoCAD MEP 2012 (AMEP 2012).
AutoCAD Architecture 2011 (ACA 2011) or AutoCAD MEP 2011 (AMEP 2011).
AutoCAD Architecture 2010 (ACA 2010) or AutoCAD MEP 2010 (AMEP 2010).
AutoCAD Architecture 2009 (ACA 2009) or AutoCAD MEP 2009 (AMEP 2009).
AutoCAD Architecture 2008 (ACA 2008) or AutoCAD MEP 2008 (AMEP 2008).

AutoCAD Civil 3D

AutoCAD Map 3D

Both 32-bit and 64-bit is supported.
Any database like Access (MDB or .accdb) or SQL Server that can be connected with dbConnect within AutoCAD is supported. Other examples are SQL Server Express, MYSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, ODBC, etc. AutoCAD 64-bit does only support Access 2010/2013/2016 64-bit or the free Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider/Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable or Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable.
Excel is not supported as it is not a real database.

If you run 64bit AutoCAD you cannot have 32bit Office installed and also connect to MS Access database.

Any operating system that can run the above is supported from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Window 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 150 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

Upgrade license: 75 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase from the Autodesk App Store site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

Installing

For the version 5.0 or later run the installer.

Activation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Usage

Commands:

	AcDbSettings	Choose an ACA_Db master database to sync. This needs to be done once per drawing. Your drawing should be saved after setting.
	AcDbMake	Register current drawing to Database to enable sync attributes data. This needs only to be done once per drawing.
	AcDbIn	Sync values from database based (on sync dir) to Property Set values in the current drawing.
	AcDbOut	Sync Property Set values in the current drawing to the connected database.
	JTBW_ACTIVATE_APPS	Open Activation Form to activate the app. This command is available in command line only. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

This app updates Property Set values back and forth to one or many external databases. If you make changes to the values within a Property Set they can be synchronized back to the external database. Any Property in a Property Set Definition can be exported and all editable Properties can be imported.

Open sample drawing in the app folder "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB-ACA_db.bundle\Contents\ACA_db_samples_2013.dwg"

The app needs a data link UDL file. Run AcaDbSettings command then click "Browse" button to choose one. There are 2 sample UDL files that included in the app, one for AutoCAD 32-bit and one for AutoCAD 64-bit. Both link to the sample "ACA_db_samples.mdb" file

Select the proper UDL, then click OK.

Run AcaDbMake command to register the drawing to the selected database.

Once success, you can use AcaDbIn and AcaDbOut commands to sync Propert Values.

Setup your own database

Run AutoCAD native command "DBCONNECT" to create a data link UDL file. Alternatively copy and modify an existing UDL file or create one from scratch. (see screenshots below)

Right click on Data Sources and select Configure Data Source…

Give it a name.

Specify the database provider:

+ For 32-bit AutoCAD use Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider.

+ For 64-bit AutoCAD use Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider.

Make the Connection by selecting the database to use.

Then run AcaDBSettings command again to choose it.

You can also double click on the UDL file directly in Windows Explorer to edit the properties.

Database structure

The main database must contain the tables JTBW_Files, JTBW_PropertySets and JTBW_Properties.

Put the database in another folder than where this app is installed and make sure it is backed up.

The other tables that contain the actual data can be located in the same or in one or more other databases.

Program requires following mandatory tables in the database.

1. JTBW_Files (Column DWGNAME is mandatory)

This table can be manually populated otherwise the program will populate it automatically.

2. JTBW_PropertySets (Columns Property Set Name and Description are mandatory)

Manually enter the name of the Property Set Definitions in AutoCAD Architecture to be used. This value is case sensitive.

A description is optional.

3. JTBW_Properties (Columns ID, Property Name, Property Set Name, Description, DBConnection and IsDimensionInNumericFormat are mandatory)

Property Name must match an existing name in the specified Property Set Definition in AutoCAD Architecture. This value is case sensitive.

Property Set Name must match the name of the Property Set Definition in AutoCAD Architecture and also exists in the JTBW_PropertySets table. This value is case sensitive.

Description is optional.

DBConnection specify the name of the data source, table and column (field) separated with “!”. For example ACA_db_samples!WallObj!Length

IsDimensionInNumericFormat If yes, then dimensions are in numeric format. If no, then dimensions are in text format (feet & inches).

4. Any other tables stores property values (Columns DBID {AutoNumber data type and Long Integer size} , DWGNAME {Memo data type and long text string size} and HANDLE {Text data type with 255 field size} are mandatory).

These tables can also be in a separate database if there is a data source that identifies it.

Property Set Definitions and other notes

Use the command _AecStyleManager or Format menu to start the Style Manager.

Expand Documentation Objects on the left side and then expand Property Set Definitions.

Either an existing PSD can be used or a new can be created.

What makes a Definition to have the ability to be retrieving information from a database is that it is added to the database tables JTBW_PropertySets and JTBW_Properties.

Property set data type and database data type must be compatible.

A PSD must be linked to a single table.

An object must not have 2 or more records linked from same db link.

An object must not have 2 or more records linked from different db links referencing same table.

All automatic properties are considered as read-only. Such properties can sync to database but cannot sync from database.

Some further details.

Property set data type and database data type must be compatible.
A PSD must be linked to a single table.
An object must not have 2 or more records linked from same db link.
An object must not have 2 or more records linked from different db links referencing same table.
All automatic properties are considered as read-only. Such properties can sync to database but cannot sync from database.
All automatic properties are considered as read-only. Such properties can sync to database but cannot sync from database.

Older documentation: ACA_DB-UserManual.pdf

Setup files (older versions than 5.0)

JTB.AcaDbXMgd_17.dll (for 2009) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd_18.dll (for 2010-2012) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd_19.dll (for 2013-2015) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd_20.1.dll (for 2016) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd 2017.dll (for 2017) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd 2018.dll (for 2018) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd 2019.dll (for 2019) or JTB.AcaDbXMgd 2020.dll (for 2020)
ACA_db_samples.mdb
ACA_db_samples_2007.dwg or ACA_db_samples_2010.dwg or or ACA_db_samples_2013.dwg
ACA_db_samples.UDL
ACA_db_license.txt (sent by email from JTB World upon request)

Setup procedure (older versions than 5.0)

Place the DLL file in a single local folder.
For example C:\Program Files\JTB World\ACA_db .
Place also the license file ACA_db_license.txt in the same folder.
ACA_db_samples.UDL should be placed in the Data Links folder. The location is found easiest by using the command OPTIONS and Files>Data Sources Location within AutoCAD.
Place the MDB in a folder with read/write access.

The DLL needs to be loaded by your AutoCAD application and that can be done in different ways. Use one of the following options.

Use the command NETLOAD and select the DLL. This loads the command in the current session only.
Create a menu command, toolbar button, ribbon button or palette tool using CUI and force load it before running the command.
Macro or Command string:
^c^c(command "netload" "C:/Program Files/JTB World/ACA_db/JTB.AcaDbXMgd_18.dll") ACADBOUT;
Use one of the AutoLoad...reg files that can be provided. Double click on the file and accept to merge to the registry. This will make sure that the commands are available whenever you run AutoCAD.
Add the row below to your acad.lsp file so it loads automatically when AutoCAD starts.
(command "netload" "C:/Program Files/JTB World/ACA_db/JTB.AcaDbXMgd_18.dll")

Solution to the following error is to right click on the DLL file and click on Unblock.

Cannot load assembly. Error details: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not
load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Users\JTB\AppData\Roaming\JTB
World\.....dll' or one of its dependencies. Operation is not
supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)
File name: 'file:///C:\Users\JTB\AppData\Roaming\JTB
World\....dll' ---> System.NotSupportedException: An attempt
was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused
the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This
release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this
load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly,
please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String
codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint,
StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean
forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAssemblyName(AssemblyName
assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean
forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadFrom(String assemblyFile,
Evidence securityEvidence, Byte[] hashValue, AssemblyHashAlgorithm
hashAlgorithm, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks,
StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(String assemblyFile)
at Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.ExtensionLoader.Load(String fileName)
at loadmgd()

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 6.1.0
- Update to support AutoCAD Architecture 2023 and verticals
2021-08-02 - version 6.0.3
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-04-13 - version 6.0.2
- Support for ACA 2022
2020-10-23 - version 6.0.1
- Fixed missing file in the installer.
2020-09-12 - version 6.0
- Support for MySQL/MariaDB
- Minor fixes
2020-07-24 - version 5.0
- Support for ACA 2021
- New licensing functions
2019-03-28 - version 4.2
- Support for ACA 2020
2018-04-11 - version 4.2
- Support for ACA 2019
2017-04-01 - version 4.1 update
- Support for ACA 2018 added
2016-11-10 - version 4.1
- Support for ACA 2016
- Bug fixes

2012-09-16 - version 4.0
- Support for ACA 2013.
- Support for 64-bit.
- IsDimensionInNumericFormat added to table JTBW_Properties. If yes, then dimensions are in numeric format. If no, then dimensions are in text format (feet & inches).
2009-10-15 - version 3.0
- Now with support for full 2-way synchronization of data both from and to ACA respectively database.
- No need to use dbConnect to link object by object.
- More features suppored for ACA 2010 like manual property set variants (Integer, List, Real, Text and True/False) and list data types.
2009-03-23 - version 2.1
- Full support for AutoCAD Architecture 2010
- Support for table names with spaces or other non standard characters
2008-05-05 - version 2
- Several improvements under the hood
- Support for multiple database sources
- UI improvements
- Licensing
- Full support for AutoCAD Architecture 2009
2008-02-22 - version 1.1
- Support for AutoCAD Architecture 2009 beta
- The bug in ACA 2008 is fixed in ACA 2009 that cause the following "harmless" crash message when closing AutoCAD. "AutoCAD Error Aborting - INTERNAL ERROR: Attempt to access AecScheduleDataServices after shutdown!"
2007-12-28 - version 1
- First release for AutoCAD Architecture 2008

Screenshot from version 2.1

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

More customers are found here

ACA_db will help you expand and improve your BIM process.

Tags: AutoCAD Architecture add-on, AutoCAD MEP add-on, AutoCAD Architecture app, AutoCAD MEP app, Building Information Modeling

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Add notes or comments in DWG files in AutoCAD or BricsCAD and optionally be notified about the note when the drawing is opened.

One or multiple notes can be added, edited or deleted.

You can use these notes for yourself or within a team to remind others what needs to be done with the drawing.

Download

DwgNotes trial can downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site or here: JTB DwgNotes 1.3.0.zip. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Follow the steps to install described on the documentation tab.

Customers can alternatively contact us directly for access to download the full version.

For BricsCAD 10 or later contact us.

System requirements

AutoCAD 2000 or later or verticals based on AutoCAD, Bricscad 10 and newer.
Tested on AutoCAD 2008 up to AutoCAD 2023 and Bricscad 10 and newer.

Compatible with those operating systems AutoCAD runs on like Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Older Windows versions might also work but are not directly supported.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

10 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

DwgNotes can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site.

Documentation

Installation

Run the installer.

Loading

The app will automatically load and also add the DwgNotes panel to the Ribbon tab Plug-ins/Add-ins.

Usage

Use the command DwgNotes.

Enter the note and press Apply to add or apply changes to a note.

Select a note in the list to edit it.

Select a note and press Delete to remove it from the list.

Turn on Notification can be used to be notified if there are notes in a drawing that is opened.

Turn on Notification and this is the message showed when opening the a drawing with a note in it.

Version History

2022-04-25 version 1.3.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2023
2021-10-21 version 1.2.3
- Fixed error the app doesn't show Notification when it is turned on.
2021-07-09 version 1.2.2
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2020-04-22 version 1.2.1 update
- Added support for AutoCAD 2022
- New licensing
2020-04-10 version 1.2 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2021 (no version number change)
2019-03-28 version 1.2 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2020 (no version number change)
2018-03-22 version 1.2 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2019 (no version number change)
2017-03-21 version 1.2 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2018 (no version number change)
2016-04-02 version 1.2 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017 (no version number change)
2015-03-20 version 1.2 update
- Installer updated for AutoCAD 2016 and verticals.
  Added digital signing of installer
2014-04-16 version 1.2 update
- Installer updated for AutoCAD 2015 and verticals.
2013 - version 1.2
- Installer updated for AutoCAD 2014 and verticals.
2012-06-29 - version 1.2
- AutoCAD 2013 support.
2011-05-11 - version 1.1
- 30-day trial available.
- AutoCAD 2012 based autoloader Plug-Ins support.
2010-09-01 - version 1.0
- First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Columbia Sheet Metal

Timmers Engineering & Consultancy BV

Beta Systems of Virginia

Suconsult AS

More customers are found here .

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Enhance Your User's Experience with DWG Columns for Windows Explorer / File Explorer.

Show the DWG and DXF properties and metadata in Explorer columns.

Even in file dialog boxes within CAD that shows drawing files.

Like in AutoCAD.

Or ZWCAD.

Sort files in Explorer based on any of the columns available like a revision.

InfoTip (ToolTip) with all properties can also be seen when hovering over a file.

Use DWGPROPS in your CAD and add information in the Summary or Custom tabs and you can show this information in columns in Windows Explorer.

The columns can show these:

version of the DWG/DXF file
up to 30 custom properties
title
subject
author
comments
created
hyperlink base
keywords
last saved by
last updated
revision number
DWG Editing Time
DWG Created By (Updated when the drawing is initially created and can for example show AutoCAD 2017 or Inventor 2017. This is not updated if an existing drawing is saved by another version of AutoCAD for example)
DWG id (for example ACAD0001409 making it possible to see difference between a drawing created in AutoCAD or an AutoCAD vertical like AutoCAD Architecture. ODA can show for a DWG created with the Open Design Alliance API like ZWCAD)
DWG Reg (Version in registry, for example 210 that stands for R21.0 and is same as version 2017)
DWG Build (AutoCAD build number, for example N5200x64, this matches _VERNUM or info in ABOUT dialog box).

By default all columns starts with the DWG prefix. The same columns are used for all file types supported.

DWG Editing Time column shows how many hours and minutes the drawing has been edited. DWG Editing Time is the same thing as Total editing time that the commands TIME or DWGPROPS>Statistics are showing.

PROPULATE command in AutoCAD allows quick, automated population of the Drawing Properties dialog data fields.

No need to have any CAD installed. That means that everyone at your company can see this information.

No need to open the drawing to know information like revision and other valuable information in the drawing.

Supported extensions and file types are DWG, DXF, BAK, DWT, DWS, SV$ in any DWG/DXF file version even though some older file versions might not support showing all properties. DXF older than version 2004 does not support properties, only file version.

Column names can be customized for example from "DWG Revision" to "Rev" or into other languages.

The properties can also be seen in Explorer's Details pane.

See also the complementary application DwgInfoTip to show the information like an InfoTip (Tooltip).

Download

Trial version

The trial app works with full functionality for 30 days, after that only the DWG version column is working.

JTB DWG Columns trial can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site (German version).

Trial version 5.0 download:

DWG Columns Trial setup 5.0.zip (1.7 MB)

Freeware version

The freeware app only shows the DWG version column.

JTB DWG Columns freeware can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site (German version).

Freeware version 5.0 download:

DWG Columns Freeware setup 5.0.zip (1.7 MB)

Purchased version

The full version that you receive when purchase is done will show all properties all the time.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Scripted installation possible. See the documentation for how to run the installer silently.

Directory Opus support: Right click on this link DWG_Columns.vbs.txt and save it as DWG_Columns.vbs without the .txt extension in the folder %appdata%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Script AddIns. The file can also be dragged and dropped into the Scripts dialog box that is access from Settings>Preferences>Toolbars>Scripts.

System requirements

Windows 10. 32-bit or 64-bit. Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1 with updates applied may work but is not supported.

This works with DWG and DXF files edited with applications like AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Dassault Systemes DraftSight, Caddie, CADopia, progeCAD, Bricsys BricsCAD, IMSI TurboCAD, GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD, GstarCAD, nanoCAD, MicroStation, ZWCAD and others.

Support for all DWG file formats up to DWG 2018.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package is required. A typical indication that the package is not installed is that DwgPropsX.dll cannot be registered.
"Module C:\WINDOWS\system32\DwgPropsX.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147010895. Contact your support personnel."

Known issues and limitations with Windows XP: DWG 2013 file format not supported. In Windows XP files with names and properties with UNICODE characters does not show correctly, DXF files are not supported and InfoTip is not supported. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable required.

If used together with FreeCommander on Windows 64-bit make sure the 64-bit version of FreeCommander is used.

Directory Opus 12 (file manager for Windows) and newer has support for DWG Columns. See download tab for further details.

Compatibility with any application that creates DWG or DXF files.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 25 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

Upgrade license: 15 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 12, 2018 the upgrade is free of charge.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

The license is perpetual. Support and upgrades are included for a minimum of 2 years after purchase. If you have more than one computer and you are the only user of the application one license is enough.

JTB DWG Columns can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site (German version).

Documentation

Installation

Installation and uninstallation usually requires administration rights.

For upgrading it is recommended to uninstall previous version, restart or log off/log in, delete any remaining files in the installation folder DWG Columns and then install the new version.

Run the setup .exe and follow the instructions. Usually a restart or log off/log in of the computer is needed as explorer.exe needs to be restarted.

If you get "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2203." you can try to install again or make sure to close or disable applications that locks files like anti-virus programs or backup programs like Carbonite.

Silent installation of version 2.0 or newer (it may be needed to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package before):
Dwgcolumnssetup.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\DWGCOL.LOG”

Customization

(Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1) , Windows 10

Names of properties (column header) as seen in Windows Explorer can be modified in the DWGPropertyHandler.propdesc file. For each property you can change the label as seen below:
<labelInfo label="DWG version" invitationText=" " />
changed to a Spanish translation:
<labelInfo label="DWG versión" invitationText=" " />
To activate the changes take these steps:
Run cmd.exe as administrator and then the following:
rundll32 "C:\Program Files\JTB World\DWG Columns\DWGPropertyHandler.dll",InstallPropertySchema
Restart Explorer or log out from Windows and log in again to see the change.

If special characters like German Umlaut is used saving with Notepad might make the file not working. Open the file in Notepad after saving it and check if the descriptions look like expected or not. If there is a problem, try instead Ultraedit, Notepad++ or Notepad2 to make the saving with.

Windows XP

Names of properties (column header) as seen in Windows Explorer can be modified in the DwgPropertyHandler.txt file for Windows XP installations.
Restart Explorer or log out and log in to see the change.

Enter properties within CAD

Use DWGPROPS within CAD and populate with information.

PROPULATE command in AutoCAD can be used to automatically populate for example attribute information from the title block into the properties.

See this PROPULATE tutorial.

Usage in Windows Explorer / File Explorer

And here is what it look like in Explorer.

Right click on the column header and you can select columns to view or hide.

When you click on More... you can select among all available details to show. All columns start with the DWG prefix, even for DXF and other file extensions supported.

Now it is possible to quickly see DWG properties or to sort on any of them.

If you want to show these columns in all your folders take these steps in Explorer: Select Tools or View from the menu and then select Folder Options or Options. On the View tab click on Apply to Folders.

See also the complementary application DwgInfoTip to show the information like an InfoTip (Tooltip).

Troubleshooting

If there are troubles after upgrading, first step to try is uninstall, delete any remaining files in the DWG Columns folder and DwgPropsX.dll in the System32 folder. A Windows restart or log out and log in might be needed to manually delete remaining files. Then install again.

If only the DWG Version is showing it might be that your trial has expired or that the DwgPropsX.dll in the System32 folder is wrong version.

If the property values are not visible in all columns it can be because of a non-compatible version of DwgPropsX.dll already is existing. To update it manually download and extract DwgPropsX.zip into a new folder and run install.bat as administrator.

DwgPropsX_2.0.zip (116 KB) for version 2.0 or newer
DwgPropsX_1.3.zip (44 KB) for version 1.3
DwgPropsX.zip (44 KB) for version 1.2

Error: “Module C:\Program Files\JTB World\DWG Explorer Column Handler\DwgPropertyHandler.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024770. Contact your support personnel.” Contact JTB World for help.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package is required. A typical indication that the package is not installed is that DwgPropertX.dll cannot be registered. "Module C:\WINDOWS\system32\DwgPropsX.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147010895. Contact your support personnel."

If you browse folders that are located on a server that you are connected with through a slow connection (WAN) you may notice that Explorer performance is slow. This is unfortunately a side effect of the need to read all files to be able to show the properties. It seems like newer Windows versions handles this better.

In some cases the app might stop working. Possibly after certain updates of other DWG based apps like AutoCAD. Installing again can help or take these steps:
Run cmd.exe as administrator and then the following:
rundll32 "C:\Program Files\JTB World\DWG Columns\DWGPropertyHandler.dll",InstallPropertySchema
Restart Explorer or log out from Windows and log in again to see the change.

Version History

2020-04-12 - version 5.0
- Improves DWG Created By column for drawings created by Civil 3D and Mechanical to show correctly.
2019-04-25 - version 4.2
- Bug fixes
2019-03-28 - version 4.1 update
- Added AutoCAD 2020 support. No change in version number.
2018-04-03 - version 4.1
- Added new column to show DWG Editing Time
2018-03-22 - version 4.0
- Added AutoCAD 2019 support. No change in version number.
2018-02-23 - version 4.0
- Increased to handle up to 30 custom properties
2017-03-21 - version 3.3
- Added support for DWG 2018 file format
- Minor bug fixes
2017-02-14 - version 3.2
- Performance improvements to solve performance issues introduced in version 3.1
2017-01-12 - version 3.1
- DWG Created By, DWG id, DWG Reg and DWG Build are new columns.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Version 3.0 was only released to a few customers
2016-10-31 - version 2.3
- Improved the installation process to be more stable.
- There are now also 3 versions of DWG Columns. One fully functional version that can be purchased, one trial and one freeware.
2015-10-12 - version 2.2
- Fixed issue with cleaning up column information when uninstalling.
2015-02-23 - version 2.1
- Added digital signing to DLL and installer.
- Works also for AutoCAD 2015.
2014-03-28 - version 2.0 update
- Updated installer for the Autodesk App version to support AutoCAD 2015 and verticals.
2013-10-17 - version 2.0
- Support for DXF files and InfoTip/ToolTip.
- 30-day trial available.

Wish list

Do you have need to see also Explorer Handler support Solidworks, MicroStation DGN files and so on? Please contact us with your interest.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

"DWG Columns for Explorer is one of the greatest tools I’ve ever seen. Simply awesome! I have used it for the past couple of years."

"Oh wow... Thank you so much for making that happen! Just installed & tested and is working great - editing time is showing and accurate. Brilliant. Also, the support for up to 30 custom properties is excellent. I have a whopping 27 attribute values in my title blocks, and can now display all of them in Directory Opus. Thanks so much for your help & ongoing support Jimmy."

Eversource

Engineering Strategies, Inc.

PENTA Engineering

Projectus Team Oy

Rogers-O’Brien Construction

Card Trix Cardboard Engineering

10 DESIGN

Innophos

SANBORN | HEAD & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Nordiskabrand AB

Grounds for Play

TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE

Excel Engineering, Inc.

Gatserelia Nawar & Associates

DFW CONSULTING

Hochschule Osnabrück

Alliant Technologies

CDC Inc

Dobler Metallbau GmbH

Ventura Engineering

CSO Technik Ltd

EBPC ENGINEERING BUSINESS PROCESS CONSULTANTS SC

KOPLA Engineering UG

Ramboll

CONTOURED, INC.

Sargent Solutions, Inc.

Blum Engineering

BC Greenhouse Builders

PSK Syd AB

ELMASYAPI

TSO REALI

FANUC America Corporation

Hunt Engineering

Jacobsen Construction

M+A Architects

Design Master Software, Inc

Costacurta S.p.A.-VICO

Peter Hunt Services Ltd

EDAC Inc

Rockland County Highway Dept

McGrathNicol

Bennett & Francis

Allgeier, Martin and Associates, Inc

Suconsult AS

BOARCH arkitekter a.s

Hunt Engineering Services

IMM.sa

Syd Ark Konstruera AB

March Manufacturing Inc. / March Pump

CCL Industries Inc.

About

Enhance Your User's Experience with RVT Columns for Windows Explorer / File Explorer.

Show the Revit version and Revit build in Explorer columns.

Even in file dialog boxes within Revit.

Sort files in Explorer based on any of the columns available like the Revit version.

InfoTip (ToolTip) with version and build can also be seen when hovering over a file.

No need to have Revit installed. That means that everyone at your company can see this information.

Now you can know the Revit version and Revit build before even opening the file.

Project and Family files are supported and extensions and file types supported are RTE, RVT, RFA and RFT.

Column names can be customized for example from "RVT Version" to "RVT Ver" or into other languages.

The properties can also be seen in Explorer's Details pane.

Directory Opus support: Right click on this link RVT_Columns.vbs.txt and save it as RVT_Columns.vbs without the .txt extension in the folder %appdata%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Script AddIns. The file can also be dragged and dropped into the Scripts dialog box that is access from Settings>Preferences>Toolbars>Scripts.

Showing the RVT Columns in the Directory Opus Lister:

Revit 2019 support

Revit 2020 supported

Revit 2021, Revit 2022 and Revit 2023 is also supported.

Download

Trial version

The trial app works with full functionality for 30 days.

JTB RVT Columns trial can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site.

Trial version 1.5 download:

RVT Columns Trial setup 1.5.zip

Purchased version

The full version that you receive when purchase is done will show all properties all the time.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Scripted installation possible. Contact us for details. See also the documentation for how to run the installer silently.

System requirements

Windows 10 and Windows 11, 32-bit or 64-bit. Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 may work but is not supported.

This works with RTE, RVT, RFA and RFT files.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable Package is required.

If used together with FreeCommander on Windows 64-bit make sure the 64-bit version of FreeCommander is used.

Directory Opus 12 (file manager for Windows) and newer has support for RVT Columns. See download tab for further details.

Compatibility with any application that creates Revit files.

Revit does not need to be installed but this works with Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit MEP and Autodesk Revit Structure.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

25 USD for one new or updated license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

RVT Columns can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site.

Documentation

Installation

Installation and uninstallation usually requires administration rights.

For upgrading it is recommended to uninstall previous version, restart or log off/log in, delete any remaining files in the installation folder RVT Columns and then install the new version.

Run the setup .exe and follow the instructions. Usually a restart or log off/log in of the computer is needed as explorer.exe needs to be restarted.

Silent installation:
"RVT Columns Trial setup.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\RVTCOL.LOG”

Customization

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11

Names of properties (column header) as seen in Windows Explorer can be modified in the RevitPropertyHandler.propdesc file. For each property you can change the label as seen below:
<labelInfo label="RVT version" invitationText=" " />
changed to a Spanish translation:
<labelInfo label="RVT versión" invitationText=" " />
To activate the changes take these steps:
Run cmd.exe as administrator and then the following:
rundll32 "C:\Program Files\JTB World\RVT Columns\RevitPropertyHandler.dll",InstallPropertySchema
Restart Explorer or log out from Windows and log in again to see the change.

Usage in Windows Explorer / File Explorer

Right click on the column header in Explorer or in a file dialog box in Revit and you can select columns to view or hide.

When you click on More... you can select among all available details to show. The columns start with the Revit prefix.

Now it is possible to quickly see Revit Version and Revit Build or to sort on any of them. Rearrange the column order as needed by dragging and dropping them one at a time or use the Move Up or Move Down buttons in the dialog box "Choose Details" showed above.

Here is what it look like in Explorer.

Here are the columns in the Revit Open dialog box.

How to determine what update has been applied to Revit from the Build number. See Revit Build versions and Build numbers.

RTE (template) files and RVT (project) files are actual Revit projects. The difference between the two is that the template is used to start a new project. When you click on Save, you will not be allowed to overwrite the template file, but you will be prompted for a new file name and location.

RFA (family) files and RFT (family template) files are family files that can either be loaded into a project or saved externally. Family template files are used to start a new family from scratch and family files are typically used to exchange families between projects.

Troubleshooting

If there are troubles after upgrading, first step to try is uninstall, delete any remaining files in the RVT Columns folder and RevitBasicFileInfo.dll in the System32 folder. A Windows restart or log out and log in might be needed to manually delete remaining files. Then install again.

Error: “Module C:\Program Files\JTB World\RVT Explorer Column Handler\RevitPropertyHandler.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2147024770. Contact your support personnel.” Contact JTB World for help.

If opening an older version of a Revit file in a newer version of Revit and after upgrading and saving to the newer version, the 'Build' and 'Version' don't populate in an external windows explorer or from within the Open dialogue box until the model is completely closed.

Some older versions of Revit may not remember columns set up in file browsing dialog boxes like Open and Save.

Some RFA extensions only show the 'Revit Build' but not the 'Revit Version'. (this appears to happen for very old Revit Family files (2010 and older)

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 1.5
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2023
2021-04-13 - version 1.4
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2022
2020-04-11 - version 1.3
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2021
2019-07-30 - version 1.2
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2020
2018-04-11 - version 1.1
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2019
2017-04-17 - version 1.0 update
- Added support for Autodesk® Revit® 2018
2016-12-12 - version 1.0
- First release

Wish list

Do you have need to see also Explorer Handler support for MicroStation DGN files or other file types?

Do you want to see custom properties in RTE, RVT, RFA and RFT files as columns?

Please contact us with your interest.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

This program is a great little utility to see what version of Revit your files are saved in. I get Revit files from lots of different sources and often don't know what version is being sent. Opening the files in various versions of Revit to figure out which is the correct one is tedious. This utility reports the Revit version directly in Windows Explorer for me. - David Robison

Ramboll UK

Rogers-O’Brien Construction

Jacobsen Construction

M+A Architects

Design Master Software, Inc

Blum Engineering

JP Cullen

Sunwise Engineering Ltd.

Suma

WRIGHTSON, JOHNSON, HADDON & WILLIAMS, INC. (WJHW)

Smith and Greene company

John A. Martin & Associates of Nevada

More customers are found here .

About

Enhance Your User's Experience with the our DWG Infotip Shell Extension.
Show the DWG properties as an Infotip (tooltip) in Explorer or even from file dialog boxes within AutoCAD.

Use DWGPROPS in AutoCAD and add information in the Summary or Custom tabs and it will show up just hovering above a DWG file.
The Infotip will show the version of the DWG file, file size, date modified and most property information.
PROPULATE allows quick, automated population of the Drawing Properties dialog data fields.
No need to have AutoCAD installed. That means that everyone at your company can see this information.
No need to open the drawing to know information like revision and other valuable information in the drawing.

The freeware version is showing the DWG file format and title.

Download

The following download is a freeware version that also can be used for trial purpose. Only the DWG version and title shows. The full version will show all properties.

DwgInfoTip can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Only DWG files in 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2018 file format shows property information. If there is need to support older DWG versions let us know. DWG 2007 is created by AutoCAD 2007 up to 2009 including verticals as well as other DWG compatible software. DWG 2010 is created by AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD 2012 based applications. DWG 2013 created by AutoCAD 2013, AutoCAD 2014, AutoCAD 2015, AutoCAD 2016, AutoCAD 2017. DWG 2018 created by AutoCAD 2018, AutoCAD 2019, AutoCAD 2020, AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD 2022.

This works with DWG and DXF files edited with applications like AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, Dassault Systemes DraftSight, Caddie, progeCAD, Bricsys BricsCAD, IMSI TurboCAD, GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD, GstarCAD, nanoCAD, MicroStation, ZWCAD+ and others.

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. 32-bit or 64-bit.

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista might also work but are not supported.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

10 USD for one license or less depending on the amount of licenses.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

DwgInfoTip can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site.

Documentation

Installation

To install run setup.exe.

Administrator rights are needed to install.

After installation restart of Windows is needed.

Usage

Use DWGPROPS within AutoCAD and populate with information.

PROPULATE can be used to automatically populate for example attribute information from the title block into the properties. See this PROPULATE tutorial.

And here is what it look like in Explorer.

Version History

2019-03-28 - version 1.6 update
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2020 support.
2018-03-22 - version 1.6 update
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support.
2017-03-21 - version 1.6 update
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2018 support.
2016-09-20 - version 1.5
- Updated installer that works more consistently than before.
version 1.4
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017
version 1.3
- Support for DWG 2013 file format

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Automatic Software Pvt. Ltd.

Binsky

Engineering Concepts & Design, L.P.

Erdemli Proje Ltd. Sti.

Innophos

Mock, Roos & Associates, Inc.

Shambaugh & Son

Coggins-Hill

More customers are found here .

See also the complementary application DWG Columns for Explorer to show the information in columns in Explorer.

About

This AutoCAD app simplifies the process of publishing (plotting) sets of drawings to DWF and/or PDF.

This app can be used with AutoCAD (and verticals) to simplify the process of publishing sets of drawings to DWF and/or PDF. It runs as a command within AutoCAD - as opposed to a separate executable - and uses a separate executable to monitor AutoCAD's health and restart it, as needed. The status of the batch publishing operation is stored to disk, allowing it to pick up from where it left off and also for any failed documents to be retried without starting from scratch. A setting is available to only publish drawings that have been modified since they were last published, making it easier to publish sets of documents on a regular basis.

Available as AutoCAD App (Plug-in/Add-in).

Other related apps are JTB Layouts2PDF and JTB Batch Publish.

Download

Batch Publish for AutoCAD can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site or here: JTB Batch Plot 2.5.0.zip. Purchase is also available through this site.

Trial: In trial mode Batch Publish for AutoCAD works to publish up to 5 drawings/layouts per AutoCAD session. When purchased it can be used without restrictions. Download trial from Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Compatible with AutoCAD 2012 up to AutoCAD 2023. All flavors based on AutoCAD should be working like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

At this point only English versions are supported. Support for other languages of AutoCAD than English will be done upon request.

Compatible with those operating systems AutoCAD runs on like Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Older Windows versions might also work but are not directly supported.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 25 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Upgrade license: 12 USD for one license less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 13, 2019 the upgrade is free of charge.

Purchase can be done on the Autodesk App Store site.
Price is 25 USD for 1 license.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Documentation

Installing

Run the installer downloaded from Autodesk App Store or from this site. You may need to restart AutoCAD to activate the app.

Uninstalling

To uninstall: On Windows 11 and 10 version 1703 or later press Windows+I on the keyboard to access Settings or click or right-click the Windows Start button and then select Settings. Click on Apps (optionally followed by Apps & features). On older Window versions click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features or Control Panel > Add.

License Activation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing. Before activated, the app will run for 30 days with limitations on numbers of drawings processed.

Usage

Before running the application's main command, please make sure you have saved your work: AutoCAD may be restarted during the batch publishing operation, which would cause any unsaved drawing edits to be lost.

The JTBWBATCHPUBLISH command launches the main application dialog. From here you must specify the source directory or drawings to publish, as well as the targets: DWF and/or PDF (PDF is only available from AutoCAD 2010). For each chosen target an appropriate destination directory must be specified. These settings will be remembered when the JTBWBATCHPUBLISH command is used again.

From this dialog it's possible to change further configuration settings. The "Configure" button brings up a dialog allowing you to specify whether to publish DWG and/or DXF files, as well as specifying a timeout delay, after which the application will decide that AutoCAD needs to be restarted during the batch publish. If AutoCAD is restarted, the batch publish process should continue from after the "failed" drawing.

It is possible to configure individual drawings, specifying whether to publish individual layouts or not. It is possible to ignore all the model-space sheets of the included drawings.

You can also choose to publish only drawings that have been modified since they were last published, streamlining regular publishing operations.

After the configuration dialog has been dismissed with the "Done" button, "Publish" will launch the operation itself.

At this point two dialogs will be launched (as well as any dialogs AutoCAD needs during individual publish operations). The first is a status dialog, showing the list of drawings found in the source folder and their individual publishing status. The second dialog is an external "regulator" application, which monitors AutoCAD's status and restarts if it takes longer to publish a drawing than the specified timeout.

Once completed it's possible to use the status dialog to "Retry" the publishing process on any failed drawings. Otherwise the dialog can simply be closed with "Done": a log file will be found in each of the target folders describing the results of the batch publish.

Tips & Tricks

If you receive "Error(s) Did Not Plot" for some jobs showing in Plot and Publish Details dialog box and maybe with the "ERROR: There were no plottable sheets in the current operation" try this. Open the drawing in question and then on the layout or model with the problem run PLOT command and then close the dialog box and save and close the drawing. You can also run the PUBLISH command and you will notice the status "Layout not initialized" on the problematic model or layout to verify that this is the problem.

If this problem is on many drawings there are ways to fix this in batch mode with for example JTB SmartBatch. Typically the problem is in the model.

Create a file named for example FIX.LSP with Notepad and include the two rows in italic below. The name FIX is just and example but the extension LSP must be used. This will make sure the model is activated and that the plot command is run once without actually plotting anything.
(setvar "TILEMODE" 1)
(command "._-plot" "_no" "" "" "None")

Then include this LSP to be run on the drawings with SmartPurger.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.5.0
- Added AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-07-09 - version 2.4.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-04-13 - version 2.3.2
- Added AutoCAD 2022 support
2020-05-25 - version 2.3.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-17 - version 2.3
- Added AutoCAD 2021 support
2020-05-15 - version 2.2
- Renamed to JTB Batch Plot
- Updated installer, if 2.1 or older is installed, uninstall first
2020-04-10 - version 2.1 (update)
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2021 support. No change in version number.
2019-03-28 - version 2.1 (update)
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2020 support. No change in version number.
2018-03-22 - version 2.1 (update)
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support. No change in version number.
2017-03-21 - version 2.1 (update)
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2018 support. No change in version number.
2016-09-20 - version 2.1
- Bug fix to support paths containing unicode characters like é.
2016-04-01 - version 2.0 update
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017 (no version number change)
2015-03-20 - version 2.0
- Added support to AutoCAD® 2016
- Added digital signing of DLL, EXE and MSI files
2014-04-02 - version 2.0
- Updated installer for the Autodesk App version to support AutoCAD 2015 and verticals.
2013-07-15 - version 2.0

First release by JTB World.

1.1.1

Added support to AutoCAD 2014 (No change in version number)

1.1.1

Updated to support AutoCAD 2013 Exchange Store autoloader bundle format
Added VS 2010 project and source required for AutoCAD 2013

Updated to support AutoCAD 2012 Exchange Store autoloader bundle format
Updated help to HTML file and to reflect new load mechanism

1.0.2

Modified the code to work in AutoCAD 2011 via PublishExecute
Support for the plug-in when output file paths contain spaces
Added option to exclude modelspace layouts during publish
Changed cursor to hourglass during long operation
Upgraded the project to VS 2008

1.0.1

Support for file path characters that are reserved in XML
Changed code to not respond to PUBLISH command's exceptions
Fixed demand-loading to create Applications key where needed

Original release as ADN Plugin of the Month.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

"I need to say, it’s a real life saving application." - Cengiz

Some Batch Plot for AutoCAD reference customers

Calibre Consulting Ltd

Innophos

Ing.byrån Intermanage Esslé AB

Arketipo Design

Design46

Pharis Design

Sugino

CODING S.r.l.

NOREC Automation

Construction Innovations

Air Control, Inc.

Federal Broach & Machine Company

Kiewit

Middle Tennessee State University

Construction Specialties, Inc.

Syscon Automation Group, LLC

Celero Partners

Thermal Systems Services, Inc.

More customers are found here .

About

JTB Sheet Set Creator is an app for AutoCAD that creates new Sheet Sets and Sheets based on an Excel template.

Sheet Set Properties can be populated.

Sheet Set Custom Properties can be defined, created and populated.

Sheet Properties can be populated.

Sheet Custom Properties can be defined, created and populated.

Sheets (drawings) can be defined, created and have their properties populated.

Download

If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

The trial period is 30 days from it's run the first time. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Sheet Set Creator as AutoCAD app will install a Plug-Ins/Add-ins Ribbon tab panel in AutoCAD 2012 and newer versions as well as verticals.

JTB Sheet Set Creator Trial can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site or by contacting us. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Alternative download: JTB Sheet Set Creator 2.10.0.zip.

System requirements

Operating system - Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows NT (SP 6A), Windows 2000 (SP2), Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2012 Server.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Microsoft Excel needs to be installed.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2012 and up to AutoCAD 2023) that has Sheet Set Manager (SSM) or the Project Navigator. Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 95 USD for one license of JTB Sheet Set Creator or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license of JTB Sheet Set Creator or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after May 9, 2019 the upgrade is free of charge.

When your purchase is completed you will get an email with a link to the download.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing. Before activated, the app will run for 30 days without limitations.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

JTB Sheet Set Creator can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Use this link to purchase.

Documentation

Setup procedure
License activation
First test usage
Excel template
Usage
More Sheet Set Manager resources

Setup procedure

Run the installer to install the app. You may need to restart the Autodesk product if it was running.

Default installation folder is
%programdata%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB Sheet Set Creator.bundle.

For deployment on multiple machines silent/automated installation can be done, /server and /port is used to specify the network license server and port, change as needed:

JTB Sheet Set Creator <version>.exe /server="myservernamehere" /port=56712 /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\JTB Sheet Set Creator.LOG”

Use this in a BAT, CMD, VBS or by other means.

License activation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

First test usage

To make a first test on how it works take a look at 'Sheet Set Creator Template Sample.xlsx' found in this location.

%programdata%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB Sheet Set Creator.bundle\Contents\Resources\SSCTest

Copy the SSCTest folder to for example C:\SSCTest for testing purposes.

Start the Create Sheet Set command from the Plug-ins/Add-ins tab or run JTBWSheetSetCreator on the command line.

Browse and select 'Sheet Set Creator Template Sample.xlsx' when asked for a file.

Review the result in C:\SSCTest and open the Sheet Set in AutoCAD.

Excel template

The empty Excel template 'Sheet Set Creator Template Empty.xlsx' is found in either of this location.

%programdata%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB Sheet Set Creator.bundle.bundle\Contents\Resources\SSCTest

Here are the sheets explained.

Sheet Set Properties

The following properties are available:
Sheet set name
Sheet set description
Folder to store sheet set data file (.dst)
Create a folder hierarchy based on subsets
Page setup overrides files
Project number
Project name
Project phase
Project milestone
Sheet storage location
Sheet creation template
Sheet creation template layout
Prompt for template
Default Plot Location
Label Block For View - Drawing Path
Label Block For View - Block Name

Note: because AutoCAD displays empty field text as "----". To avoid that, you can let Sheet Set Creator replace empty property by an alternative empty text = Alt+0160 (Type "Alt 0160") or something else.

Note: Spaces are not a solution because AutoCAD Sheet Set has tendency to empty up space-only text.

Sheet Set Custom Properties

In the "Name" column specify the names of Sheet Custom Properties that should be created and in the "Default Value" column specify optionally the default value.

If the "Default Value" is "<Auto-Calculate-Total-Sheets>" it will be replaced by the number of sheets created for the sheet set.

Sheet Custom Properties

In the "Name" column specify the names of Sheet Custom Properties that should be created and in the "Default Value" column specify optionally the default value.

Sheets

The following fixed properties are available:
Sheet Number
Sheet Title
File Name
Template
Template Layout
Layout Name
Sheet Description
Subset
Revision number
Revision date
Purpose
Category

After the Category column any Sheet Custom Properties can be added. The name must match the name defined on the "Sheet Custom Properties" sheet. To simplify this use the button "Generate Custom Property Columns (skip If it exists)".

Callout Blocks

Specify Drawing Path and optionally Blockname (leave empty if using entire drawing as callout block).

Model View Locations

Specify Model View Locations Folder Paths

Usage

Take a copy of 'Sheet Set Creator Template Empty.xlsx' and fill out the sheets.

Start the Create Sheet Set command from the Plug-ins/Add-ins tab or run JTBWSheetSetCreator on the command line.

Select the .xlsx file when asked for a file.

Wait until the command is ready, time to complete depends on the number of sheets to be created.

Optionally: After having created a Sheet Set DST file it can also be checked in to Vault.

More Sheet Set Manager resources:

Version History

Known issues in latest release and possibly older releases:

None

Most recent and previous versions:

2022-04-25 - version 2.10.0
- Added AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-10-23 - version 2.9.1
- Minor improvement.
2021-07-06 - version 2.9.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-05-09 - version 2.8.2
- Fixed Sheet Description missing error.
2021-04-13 - version 2.8.1
- Added AutoCAD 2022 support
2020-12-30 - version 2.8.0
- Added more error handlers to catch missing tabs, invalid fields in the Excel workbook.
2020-11-28 - version 2.7.2
- Excel reading bug fixed
2020-10-24 - version 2.7.1
- Added notification about invalid Sub Set New Sheet Location path.
2020-10-05 - version 2.7.0
- Fixed error when creating a multi-sheet drawing in a subset
- In silent installation mode, removed message about uninstall old version
- Selecting excel file is now including *.xlsm
- Dropped support for AutoCAD older than 2017
2020-07-26 - version 2.6.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-09 - version 2.6.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2021.
2019-12-05 - version 2.5.0
- Added macro to the Excel workbook to create and sort custom property columns.
- Improved the UI of popup dialogs during sheetset creation process.
- Installation folder changed.
2019-03-28 - version 2.4.1
- Added support for AutoCAD 2020.
- Updated installer.
2018-10-23 - version 2.4
- Upgraded Excel reader: the app no more requires Microsoft Excel installed.
- Fixed keywords in Excel to non case sensitive.
- Error messages are collected to 1 place
- Fixed bug when sets up "Template" and "Template Layout" for sheet and subset, in "Sheets" tab.
- Remove error messages when empty subset created.
2018-03-22 - version 2.2 update
- Added AutoCAD 2019 support. No change in version number.
2017-09-28 - version 2.2
- Network license implemented.
- Added Default Plot Location to SheetSet Properties tab in the Excel template.
2016-03-22 - version 2.1
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2018
- Added Subset New Sheet Location setting
2016-12-13 - version 2.0
- Add creation of subset
- Add progression bar
- New license activation method
- Each sheet can be create from a specific template drawing
- Add Label Block View, Model View Locations and Callout Blocks
- Add feature to create multiple sheets in one drawing
- Add option to replace empty sheet property to another text value
2015-05-25 - version 1.4
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017
2015-04-14 - version 1.3 update
- Support for AutoCAD 2016 added
2014-09-05 - version 1.3
- Support for AutoCAD 2015 added as well as some minor adjustments.
2014-06-29 - A beta update for AutoCAD 2015 is available upon request.
2013-09-13 - version 1.2
- First public release
2012-12-17 - version 1.1
2012-04-23 - version 1.0
- First release

Wishes

Let us know.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Norconsult AS

Brown and Caldwell

CAMERON ENGINEERING & ASSOCIATES, LLP

Moffatt & Nichol

Garver, LLC

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Precision Geomatics Inc.

POWER Engineers

ARUP

ANDDES ASOCIADOS S.A.C.

Zuhair Fayez Partnership

Mcmillen Jacobs Associates

LandDesign

STV Incorporated

Duke Energy

SWA GROUP

Al Khatib Cracknell

Studio Twenty Two Design

Sevan Multi-Site Solutions

Alpha Technical Group, Inc.

MAT Latinamerica

RAS PE Consulting Engineers

EnSiteUSA

BIMcorp

More customers are found here .

Take a look at our product SSMPropEditor if you want to edit and update Sheet properties and Sheet Set properties.

Merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files with our JTB DST Tool.

JTB Batch Publish app publishes sheets in Sheet Sets to files like PDF and DWF with advanced naming functionality.

JTB Sheet Set Renumber to update running sheet numbers and total in title blocks.

Tags: AutoCAD Sheet Set, AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager, ACAD SSM, AutoCAD Sheet Set Properties, AutoCAD Sheet Properties, Sheet Set Create.

About

JTB Batch Publish (aka JTB Sheet Set Publish) is an app for AutoCAD and BricsCAD that publishes sheets in Sheet Sets or the Project Navigator, layouts in other drawings, folders or drawings in DSD files to files like PDF, DWF, PNG or JPG/JPEG. The files created are named as you want based on a naming formula that you specify. Use date fields and/or sheet properties of your choice to build up the output filename.

Create formula for filename.

PDF Setup. Create multi-sheet PDF files in various ways. 1 PDF for all sheets or grouped by Sheet Set Subset, drawing folder name or drawing name.

Publish specific title blocks.

Output folder after publishing:

Other related apps are JTB Layouts2PDF and JTB Batch Plot for AutoCAD.

Do you need any other features let us know. Maybe publish to Autodesk Docs or Autodesk BIM 360? Maybe adding a plot stamp? Electronic signature? Update titled block with new revision, date or name?

Download

Download JTB Batch Publish 4.4.0.zip.

The trial period is 30 days from it is run the first time. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Batch Publish will install a Plug-Ins/Add-ins Ribbon tab panel in AutoCAD as well as verticals and in BricsCAD.

JTB Batch Publish Trial can be downloaded and installed as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Purchase is also available through this site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system - Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2014 and up to AutoCAD 2023) that has Sheet Set Manager (SSM). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

Compatible with BricsCAD.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 95 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after March 30, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

JTB Batch Publish can also be downloaded, installed and purchased as an app from the Autodesk App Store site. Use this link to purchase.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Documentation

+ See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

+ Run JTBBatchPublish from command line or from the Add-ins/Plug-Ins Ribbon tab panel.

+ Click "Open Sheet Set" to choose a Sheet Set dst file. The Sheet Set content will be shown in the Sheet Set View panel.

+ Click on each sheet to view its properties (in the 2nd panel). Properties are: drawing path, layout, sheet name, sheet number, description, etc. Custom properties are including as well. These properties are used to compose output filename

+ On the "Output Filename Formula" box, right click to insert fields from a popup menu. Note: Once publish runs, formula will be saved to a list also on this popup menu. Then in next runs, you can just pick a saved formula.

+ Output filename formula can have: custom text; fields ([Sheet Name], [Revision Number] etc); and current date fields.

+ Syntax of field is "[Field name]". But better you can get it quickly by click to "Insert fields" menu in the popup.

+ If "Preview Output Filename" is checked, while composing a formula, the Sheet Set view panel will show updated output file names in real-time

+ You can choose alternative Plotter, Plot Style and Paper Size

+ Choose an output folder. You can check "Create folders for subsets". It will create a folder hierarchy similar to the subset hierarchy, then publish files there.

+ Don't forget to select sheets in the Sheet Set View panel

+ When everything is ready, click "Publish" button

From version 2.2, the app supports to open multiple sheet sets, drawings, folders of drawings and dsd files.

From version 3.0, the app supports publishing to multi-sheet PDF files.

From version 4.0, beside layouts, the app can publishing title blocks. Also, the attributes of title block are showing in Properties panel for you to compose output file name.

At the top left corner, there are Open, New, Save, Save As buttons for the working session. You can save the whole working session to a file and reopen later. Working session file is automatically saved, unless you close the working session by clicking button "Close Current Working Session Without Save"

+ When everything is ready, click "Publish" button

+ To publish in the background run this app in a separate AutoCAD or BricsCAD instance.

+ To remove obsolete recent paths it can be done in user.config found in a folder like this: C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Local\Autodesk,_Inc\DefaultDomain_Path_0neuf4231rcmba5oqyptv1by4uxhr5mr\R24.1.113.0.0\user.config

+ Trial License is available for 30 days after first usage.

Version History

Known issues in latest release and possibly older releases:

None

Most recent and previous versions:

2022-03-30 - 4.4.0
- Added AutoCAD 2023 support.
- Enables showing title block attributes as properties for layouts in sheet set and dsd file.
- Added option to load lisp file to every drawing before plotting.
- Fixed minor issues in worksession loading.
- Fixed error when loading readonly dst file.
2022-02-05 - 4.3.0
- Added progress bar.
- Added group sheets under sheet set if option "Plot to multi-sheet PDF files" is chosen.
- Fixed pdf sheets order to match with sheet set.
- Other minor enhancements.
2021-10-27 - 4.2.0
- Added the number of title blocks found, if title block name specified.
- Enhancements in the UI.
- Fixed compatibility error with new BatchAttEdit version.
2021-07-17 - 4.1.0
- Minor improvement in the file dialog window.
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-06-27 - 4.0.0
- Added new feature: specify title block to get attribute values to compose output file names.
- Added new feature: plotting title blocks.
- Added new feature: saving the whole working session to a file and reopen later.
- Added new feature: plot stamp supported.
- Fully upgraded the UI.
2021-05-13 - 3.0.2
- Fixed error in activation.
2021-04-13 - 3.0.1
- Added AutoCAD 2022 support
2021-02-01 - 3.0.0
- Renamed the app from Sheet Set Publish to Batch Publish
- Added option "Plot to multi-sheet PDF files"
- Upgraded the publishing log window
2020-08-16 - 2.6.3
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-08 - 2.6.2
- Minor change
2020-04-17 - 2.6.1
- Upgrade the License functions.
2020-04-04 - 2.6.0
- Added AutoCAD 2021 support
- Fixed bug processing lower case custom property
2019-10-15 - 2.5.0.1
- Fixed bug that could cause the app not running
2019-08-12 - 2.5.0
- Fixed bug crashing AutoCAD after the app tries to plot to an invalid file path.
2019-07-22 - 2.4.0
- Sheet Set Publish output folder is defaulted to if available.
- App installation folder changed to be in C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins.
- Unattended installation and configuration of network license server made possible.
2019-05-16 - 2.3.3
- Fixed bug: if a drawing is already open, it should not be closed after publishing.
2019-03-31 - 2.3.2
- Automatically close any alert dialog if popup when open a drawing to publish
2019-03-28 - 2.3.1
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2020.
- Updated installer.
2019-02-19 - 2.3.0
- Added Project Name, Project Number, Project Phase, and Project Milestone.
2018-12-14 - 2.2.1
- Fixed an error that could happen if another app from JTB World also was installed for AutoCAD.
2018-09-20 - 2.2
- Upgraded the app to publish layouts in drawings and dsd files
- Fix of error when plotting in MSPACE
2018-03-23 - 2.0
- Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support
- Some bugs fixed
- Some UI changes
2017-05-20 - version 1.0
- First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

EEIS Consulting Engineers

Bligh Tanner Consulting Engineers

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Clark

Urbanized Civil Design Pty Ltd

Alexco Environmental Group

C J Arms

Contag Engenharia

EAC Consulting, Inc.

Hunyadi Mernoki Tervezo Iroda Kft

Bowen Collins & Associates

More customers are found here .

Take a look at our product SSMPropEditor if you want to edit and update Sheet properties and Sheet Set properties.

Merge, purge and convert Sheet Set DST files for AutoCAD, BricsCAD and any other CAD software using Sheet Set DST files with our JTB DST Tool.

JTB Sheet Set Renumber to update running sheet numbers and total in title blocks.

Tags: AutoCAD Sheet Set, AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager, ACAD SSM, AutoCAD Sheet Set Properties, AutoCAD Sheet Properties, Sheet Set Publish.

About

JTB Steel is an app running inside AutoCAD®, adding powerful command features to help you draw simple and complex steelwork frames and details efficiently.

You can select and insert Steel Sections from JTB Steel library to AutoCAD® drawing just as inserting blocks. You can draw Steel Frames just as drawing lines by 2 pickpoints. All created drawing objects are either blocks or dynamic blocks. Once Steel members are inserted, you can edit these using powerful editing commands located on Tools Palette.

JTB Steel includes advanced automation techniques for modifying dynamic blocks. This means that you can easily manage your drawings and quickly finalize your details. The below example was fully created using JTB Steel (this includes any alignment, rotation etc):

JTB Steel on the AutoCAD Plug-ins/Add-ins menu

The Drawing Palette

Tool palette

Edit Steel Frame

Change Steel Frame(s) Visibilities

Quickly insert sections and frames

Easily convert lines and curves to steel frames

Easily edit sections and frames

Various types of sections are available and can be shown in any color or linetype.

More images

Libraries are available:

Australian (CHS, Equal Angles, PFC, RHS, SHS, TFB & UBP, UB, UC, Unequal Angles, WB and WC)

Canadian (W Shapes, S Shapes, M Shapes, HP Shapes, WWF (Welded wide-flange shapes), WRF (Welded reduced-flange shapes), SLB Super light beams, Angle, Channel C Shapes, Channel MC Shapes, HA - Rectangular Hollow Sections - ASTM, HA - Round Hollow Sections - ASTM, HA - Square Hollow Sections - ASTM, HSS - Rectangular Hollow Sections - CSA, HSS - Round Hollow Sections - CSA, HSS - Square Hollow Sections - CSA, T Shapes - WT and T Shapes - WWT)

European (HD wide flange columns, HE European wide flange beams, HL European extra wide flange beams, HP wide flange bearing piles, IFB beams, IPE European I Beams, IPN European Standard Beams, Joists with tapper flanges, L Equal leg angles, L Unequal angles, SFB beams, T Equal flange tees, U Channel with tapper angle, UPE Channels with parallel flanges and UPN Eurpean standard channels)

Japanese (H - JIS)

Russian (HG - GOST)

Taiwan (CNS sections, H Shape, I Shape, T Shape, Channel, L Equal Angle, Cold Form Channel, Pipe, SHS, RHS)

UK (UB - Advance UK Universal Beams, UC - Advance UK Universal Columns, UBP - Advance UK Universal Bearing Piles, PFC - Advance UK Parallel Channels, CH British channels with tapper flanges, EA - Advance UKA - Equal, UA - Advance - Unequal, ASB, SFB - Slimflor Beams, Square Hollow Sections, Rectangular Hollow Sections, Circular Hollow Sections, T-Split from UB, T-Split from UC and Bristish Joist with taper flanges)

US Imperial (W Shapes, S Shapes, M Shapes, HP Shapes, Angle L Shapes, Box - HSS, Channel C Shapes, Channel MC Shapes, Pipe - HSS, Pipes, T Shapes - MT, T Shapes - ST and T Shapes - WT)

US Metric (W Shapes, S Shapes, M Shapes, HP Shapes, Angle L Shapes, Box - HSS, Channel C Shapes, Channel MC Shapes, Pipe - HSS, Pipes, T Shapes - MT, T Shapes - ST and T Shapes - WT)

Z and C purlins

JTB Steel is for 2D design only. No 3D available.

Download

JTB Steel trial license is limited to 30 minutes running time which restarts each time AutoCAD is restarted. It is also limited to drawing file size of maximum 500 objects. Once the above limitations are reached, some features are disabled until the software is purchased and fully activated. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Steel can be downloaded on Autodesk App Store or here: JTB Steel 1.8.0.zip.

This will install a Plug-Ins/Add-ins Ribbon tab panel in AutoCAD 2012 and newer versions as well as verticals.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system - Windows11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit. Windows Vista and Windows XP might be supported upon request.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2007 and up to AutoCAD 2023). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

95 USD for one license of JTB Steel or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Or purchase JTB Steel from the Autodesk App Store.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Install JTB Steel and run "JTB Steel.exe" click on Activate and follow the instructions to receive the activation key. Normally it's sent within 24 hours.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Documentation

Click here to see the documentation.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Known Issues

Steel Frame with wipeout on is not working properly in AutoCAD 2019. Hope we can have a fix for this soon in the near future. (Fixed in AutoCAD 2019.0.1 Update)
JTB Steel UI get wrong if Windows display scaling is set to a value other than 100%.
In Win32, when no VBA installed, Draw and Tool palette are shown as modal dialog windows.
In Window 64-bit, this 32-bit software run pretty slower. While any modal dialog is active, please don't click to AutoCAD screen. Minimize all other application windows is also recommended.
In Win32 bit, AutoCAD 2013, if VBA installed, an error beep sound invokes after AutoCAD shut down.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 1.8.0
- Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-04-13 - version 1.7.2
- Added support for AutoCAD 2022
2020-07-25 - version 1.7.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-09 - version 1.7.0
- Added support for AutoCAD 2021
- Fixed display scaling issue
2019-03-28 - version 1.6.1
- Added support for AutoCAD 2020
- Updated installer
2018-03-29 - version 1.6
- UI fixes
- Added support for AutoCAD 2019
- Network licensing added
- Fixed issue where the frame tag/frame view layers get switched
- Add Australian member schedule files. Enhance the section list to show member schedule.
- Resolve button error in Windows 10 update.
2017-04-02 - version 1.4
- Added support for AutoCAD 2018.
- Option to change color of hollow section's inner line
2017-02-07 - version 1.3.1
- Fixed US Metric ST section: flange slope column missing
- Added Japanese sections, Russian sections and Taiwan CNS sections
2016-09-19 - version 1.3 update
- Fixed some spelling errors (no version number change)
2016-05-03 - version 1.3
- Add hatched property to steel sections
- Fix issue in AutoCAD 2015, 2016, Windows 64 bit: error when changing steel frame section.
- Added support for AutoCAD® 2017
- Minor fixes
2015-05-26 - version 1.2.1
- Fixed an issue related to Windows XP
2015-04-13 - version 1.2
- Added support for all Windows Region and Language settings
2015-03-22 - version 1.1
- Added support for AutoCAD 2016
2015-03-09 - version 1.0
- First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Acier Charron Ltée

Block Berge Bygg

Capital Studio Architects

K.D.Leach Limited

Pankow

Progressive Design

Excavation René St-Pierre inc.

More customers are found here .

About

The JTB_Align_Any and JTB_Align_Objects commands will copy and align your text, block or selection of objects at picked point of selected line or curve. Curve can be Arc, Circle, Polyline, Leader or 3D Polyline, in current space as well as nested inside Blocks or Xrefs.

Text will be aligned and placed at an the same offset distance as text in current dimension style. Block will be aligned and fit tangentially to curve. You can press TAB key or type F to flip aligned object(s) to either sides; Type O to move object(s) to specified offset distance; Type R to rotate object(s); Right click on line or curve to move object(s) rather than copy; Type U to undo previous action.

More interesting, if you pick on text or block, or on empty space, Match Text Content or Match Block command will run, help you easily manage your drawing's tags and symbol blocks.

The "plus" commands are:
1. JTB_Make_Table (MTB): Make an ACAD table and MS. Excel table from texts.

2. JTB_Align_Quick (ALQ): Quickly line up texts and block's insertion points.

3. JTB_DimScale (DSC): Change the dimension scale and linetype scale accordingly
4. JTB_DimSpace (DSP): Adjust space within linear and aligned dimension objects.

5. JTB_DimBreak (DBR): Break dimensions lines, or trim/extend dimensions extension lines.

Download

Trial version usage is limited to drawings with less than 500 objects in model space. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Align Plus for AutoCAD can be purchased on Autodesk App Store. JTB Align Plus Trial for AutoCAD can be downloaded here.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Download JTB Align Plus for BricsCAD and AutoCAD (both as trial and for customers)

Download JTB Align Plus for GstarCAD v3.7

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2012 and up to AutoCAD 2023). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

Compatible with BricsCAD and GstarCAD.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

25 USD for one license of JTB Align Plus or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Purchase JTB Align Plus from the Autodesk App Store site.

New license: 25 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Upgrade license: 12 USD for one license less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing. Before activated, the app will run for 30 days without limitations, after this it will only work on drawings with less than 500 objects in model space.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

See the help file.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Version History

Most recent and previous versions:

2022-04-25 - version 4.5.0
- Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-07-09 - version 4.4.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-04-13 - version 4.3.2

Added AutoCAD 2022 support

2020-07-25 - version 4.3.1

Upgraded to License 4.3

2020-05-08 - version 4.3.0

Added AutoCAD 2021 support

2019-08-12 - version 4.2.1

Fixed write permission issue in app's folder

2019-07-04 - version 4.2

Update of the installer.
Issues fixed related to having other JTB World apps installed.

2019-03-28 - version 4.1

Update of the installer. It is recommended to uninstall the old version first
Added AutoCAD® 2020 support
Minor bug fixes

2018-02-22 - version 4.0 update

Added AutoCAD 2019 support. No change in version number.

2018-02-19 - version 4.0

Only updated for BricsCAD:
- Added support for BricsCAD V18
- Network license implemented.
- Fix bug in Help button on dialogs
- Fix bug made images not loaded in Align Object
- Fix bug in Align Any > Rotate option

2017-03-21 - version 3.7 update

Added support for AutoCAD® 2018

3.7
Fixed bug that did not release highlight entities.
Minor change.

3.6
Fixed bug in AutoCAD 2016 when geometry center osnap is ticked.
Added support for AutoCAD® 2017

3.5
Added support for AutoCAD® 2016
Fix slide image side-effect bug
Fix bug when working in paper space's viewport
Upgrade error handler functions
Added digital signing of MSI file

3.4
Fix run-time error in 3.3 version
Fix bug when align on scaled block

3.3
Esc key now just step back 1.
The command prompt now look much better.
There is key + and - add to enhance offset move.
ALA command now take VIEWTWIST into account, therefore if your viewport is twisted, texts are still upward.
Match text content added to multipleader as well.
Fixed bugs in DimSpace, DimBreak, Align Any command.

3.0
Upgrade Align Text command to Align Any which works with block.
Embedded Match Text or Match Block functions to Align Any command.
Upgrade Align Objects command.
Enable Undo in 2 Align commands.
Add JTB Align Plus Settings command.

2.1
Change the way enter keywords of Flip, Mirror, Rotate or Offset to familiar Autodesk AutoCAD gesture: type key then enter.

2.0
Change application's name to Align Text Plus.
New ribbon interface.
Add 5 commands: Align Object, Align Quick, Make Table, DimSpace and DimBreak.
Works with all AutoCAD Verticals.

1.4
Fix error when working with annotative dimstyle.
Compatible with Civil 3D.
Enable working with 3D Polyline
Fix error when running in different Autodesk® AutoCAD® language.

1.3
Enable align Texts on Circles.
Using Right click to move Texts.
Add 2 commands: Dimscale and Match Text (==)
Refine functions and create new ribbon interface.

1.2
Works with Attributes, nested lines, arcs or polylines.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

10 DESIGN

BRC IMAGINATION ARTS

Hayward Baker Inc.

NGCB

Kopplin Group

Smurfit Kappa

van der Meer Consulting

ESCON GmbH

Thomson Architectural Group, Inc.

Deep South Crane

Mario Associates

asm advisory

Daly.Smith

DME Alliance Engineering Consultants, Inc.

Engesur

LandsteinerGmbH

EG Controls

GGGAE

Auditoria Services

Appledore Marine Engineering

Vesta Terminals

Mapitec Engineering & Consultancy

OHM Advisors

Graña y Montero S.A

More customers are found here .

About

Sorts data in AutoCAD or BricsCAD tables, ascending or descending in selected columns.

If you are looking for a command on the Table Cell tab to sort data in your table, and can not find it, this app is for you.

Just as easy as in Excel, you select the table or cells (in AutoCAD), run the SORTTABLE command or start it from the Add-ins or Plug-ins ribbon tab in AutoCAD or the JTB Sort Table ribbon tab or toolbar in BricsCAD, then select columns to sort them.

You can sort ascending or descending. Cells with blocks and merged cells also be sorted.

Download

Trial version 30 days. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Sort Table Trial for AutoCAD can be downloaded on Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Download JTB Sort Table for BricsCAD and AutoCAD version 2.3.0

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

Compatible with BricsCAD.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

Upgrade license: 10 USD for one license of JTB Sort Table or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Purchase JTB Sort Table from the Autodesk App Store site.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below. This is required if purchasing the app for BricsCAD.

Upgrade license: 5 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Run the SORTTABLE command or start it from Add-ins or Plug-ins ribbon tab in AutoCAD or the JTB Sort Table ribbon tab or toolbar in BricsCAD, then select columns to sort them.

You can select the table (or in AutoCAD alternatively a selection of columns, rows or cells) first then run SORTTABLE command, or run SORTTABLE command first, then select the table.

Sort Table dialog will show up. On the top section, you can adjust your cells by selecting new rows and columns. On the bottom section, you can select priority of sorting columns by clicking on one of the cells in the Select Column, and sorting options in Sort Direction column where Ascending, Descending, or None can be set.

Lastly, click OK then your data will be sorted.

On the animation below, "A" column contains merge cells. "B" column contains blocks. "D" and "E" and "F" columns have background color equal to row's index. Try it and you can see:

+ If cell contains block, SORTTABLE will use the first attribute of the block (if existing) to sort by.

+ After sorting, merge cells are retained merged. This is because SORTTABLE will keep them merged as long as their rows are not separated.

Note: Trial version is available for 30 days.

Often BricsCAD does not allow the application to change text height, background color of cell that has default setting. Therefore the application work best on table where all cells are in default settings, or all cells have properties overridden.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.3.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support

2021-08-03 - version 2.2.1

Fixed an overflow bug in natural sorting.

2021-07-09 - version 2.2.0

Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-03-15 - version 2.2.0

Added AutoCAD 2022 support
Added natural numeric sorting

2020-08-16 - version 2.1.1

Upgraded to License 4.3

2020-05-08 - version 2.1.0

Added AutoCAD 2021 support.

2019-08-03 - version 2.0.3

Fixed write permission issue in app's folder.

2019-07-04 - version 2.0.2

Updated installer.
Issues fixed related to having other JTB World apps installed.

2019-03-28 - version 2.0.1

Added AutoCAD 2020 support.

2018-03-22 - version 2.0 (update for AutoCAD)

Added AutoCAD 2019 support. No change in version number.

2018-02-19 - version 2.0 (updated only for BricsCAD)

Fix error when working with cells contains blocks.
Fix text height lost after sorting.
Network license implemented.
Support BricsCAD version 18.

2017-05-12 - version 1.1 update

Added support for AutoCAD 2018 (No change in Version Number)

2017-02-16 - version 1.1

Fixed bug in cells with block
Fixed bug when sorting locked, read-only or linked cells

2017-01-12 - version 1.0

First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Some JTB Sort Table Customers

Almond Engineering

Mapitec Engineering & Consultancy

Sargent Solutions, Inc.

Korda/Nemeth Engineering Inc.

DSIC

Team LINX

Safetyfirst

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

Manage drawings with many layouts easier in a palette.

Run command LAYOUTPALETTE or click to the ribbon panel to Show or Hide the Layout Palette. You can quickly browse for layout, add, delete or edit name like working on a spreadsheet. This app is for you when there are too many layouts, or the layout names are too long to effectively work with out-of-the-box in AutoCAD or BricsCAD.

Quickly show only the layouts you want to see with filters.

Edit layout names

Moving and Sorting layouts

There is a new Layout Manager in BricsCAD V18 so why use this app:

It's not a palette. It is a modal form
Click New layout and it add Layout8, Layout9 etc to the list instead of a 1, a 2, a 3 like JTB Layout Palette
It doesn't have sort A-Z, Z-A, Tab order
No filter

One thing in JTB Layout Palette is that we make Edit Mode and non-Edit Mode. Only in Edit mode you can rename, select multiple layouts. In non-edit mode, clicking on a layout item mean make it current layout. This is a bit nuisance somehow. But at that time I might have some reasons, like I want single click instead of double click to activate layout. But while editing, user has to go up and down a lot and I don't want layout switching too many. etc.

Download

Trial version works for 30 days. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Layout Palette Trial for AutoCAD can be downloaded on Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Download JTB Layout Palette version 2.4.0 for AutoCAD and BricsCAD.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2012 and up to AutoCAD 2022). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

Compatible with BricsCAD.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

25 USD for one license of JTB Layout Palette or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase JTB Layout Palette from the Autodesk App Store site.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below. This is required if purchasing the app for BricsCAD.

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Run command LAYOUTPALETTE or click to the ribbon panel to Show or Hide the Layout Palette. You can quickly browse for layout, add, delete or edit name like working on a spreadsheet.

The Model tab is read-only and always on top.

When open, Layout Palette is at normal mode. Click on layout's name will activate it.

Click Add or Delete command button at bottom to add a new layout or delete selected layout.

Move the active layout by using the bold line (the mouse cursor will change) below it and drag it to a new location. Multiple layouts can be moved in the Edit Mode.

Double click, or click "Edit" button (bottom right corner) and Layout Palette will turn to edit mode. Its background color will change a little bit brighter.

Now you can use arrow keys to move up or down, type in new layout names or type F2 to edit current one. This is as handy as working in a spreadsheet.

Still in Edit Mode, you can select multiple layouts and reorder them. Hover the mouse over the thick grey bottom border, then drag-drop them on a target layout. Selected layouts will be moved and placed after that target one.

Resize text size by adjusting the height of one of the rows.

Right click and you will have a popup menu of more commands to play with:

Filter: select filter pattern from the pop-up menu list, or click "Edit Filter" to add new pattern. To delete a pattern, hover the mouse over it and press delete key
Sort: There are 3 sorting options. Sort by tab order is default one, similar to native layout tabs. 2 other options are display layouts in ascending or descending name order. After sorting, click "Save order to Layout tabs" if you want to save it to drawing.

Finally, you can undo changes anytime using native "U" or "UNDO" CAD command.

Edit layout names

Moving and Sorting layouts

Note: Trial version is available for 30 days.

Known issue: In some AutoCAD versions, after moving layouts, the AutoCAD layout tabs do not update to reflect the new order. Activate another layout will fix this.

Version History

Most recent and previous versions:

2022-04-25 - version 2.4.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support.

2021-09-12 - version 2.3.1

Minor enhancement in font size and editing UI.

2021-07-27 - version 2.3.0

Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-04-13 - version 2.2.2

Added AutoCAD 2022 support
Fixed cell text color turned white in darkmode

2020-07-26 - version 2.2.1

Upgrade to License 4.3

2020-05-08 - version 2.2.0

Added support BricsCAD version 20
Added support for AutoCAD 2021
Updated installer

2019-10-15 - version 2.1.2

Support BricsCAD version 19
Updated installer
Minor fixes

2019-03-28 - version 2.1.1

Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2020 support.

2018-12-14 - version 2.1

Fix bug crashes AutoCAD 2017 if drawing is closed by some specific Lisp routines.

2018-03-22 - version 2.0 update

Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support.

2018-02-19 - version 2.0 (only updated for BricsCAD)

Fix bug happens after undo multiple adding layout actions.
Minor changes in the UI.
Support BricsCAD version 18

2017-05-10 - version 1.1 update

Added support for Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 (no change of version number)

1.1

First public release

1.0

First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Installatiebedrijf Krechting BV

Bosch

GEOMETRIA Ingenieurvermessungsgesellschaft mbH

Dalarnas Säkerhets System AB

Britannia Site Solutions

BIOS ARKITEKTER AS

G2 Metal Fab

Total Control a division of RSD

More customers are found here .

About

App for AutoCAD to simplify layer override settings within viewports.

If you use VPLAYER frequently setting up overrides for linetype and lineweight of layers on viewports, this app will help you do it quickly.

Here's a tutorial showing how to use JTB VPLayer Tools.

First run JTB_VPSettings and set your preference VPLAYER override linetype and lineweight. In the animation below, they are "Hidden2" and 1 mm.

Look at first animation: inside the viewport, run JTB_VPLAYER command, then select lines. Their layers (Layer1, Layer2 and Layer3) will change their Viewport override linetype and lineweight to Hidden2 and 1 mm.

Still within that viewport, run JTB_VPMA command. Select source layer which viewport override linetype and lineweight is Dashed and 0.00mm. Then select target layers. Target layers's override linetype and lineweight will change to Dashed and 0.00mm.

In the second animation, we are in paper space. Run JTB_VPCLEAR and select viewports. All override linetype and lineweight of all layers in selected viewports will be cleared.

Switch to another viewport, run JTB_VPCLEAR again. Select layers via selecting objects. Override linetype and lineweight of selected layers will be clear.

Switch to paper space. Run JTB_VPMA and select a viewport as source object. Then select target viewports. Now we will see JTB_VPMA command matches override linetype and lineweight properties from viewport to viewports.

Download

Trial version 30 days. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB VPLayer Tools Trial for AutoCAD can be downloaded on Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Alternative download: JTB VPLAYER Tools 2.2.2.zip

Sample drawing: JTB VPLayer Tools Test.dwg

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

Compatible with BricsCAD upon request.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

10 USD for one license of JTB VPLayer Tools or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase JTB VPLayer Tools from the Autodesk App Store site.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Trial license available for 30 days.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

On the Add-ins ribbon tab the commands are available.

Here's a tutorial showing how to use JTB VPLayer Tools using the sample drawing: JTB VPLayer Tools Test.dwg

First run JTB_VPSettings and set your preference VPLAYER override linetype and lineweight. In the animation below, they are "Hidden2" and 1 mm.

In the second animation, we are in paper space. Run JTB_VPCLEAR and select viewports. All override linetype and lineweight of all layers in selected viewports will be cleared.

Switch to another viewport, run JTB_VPCLEAR again. Select layers via selecting objects. Override linetype and lineweight of selected layers will be clear.

An interesting feature of JTB_VPMA is it saves the source viewport override linetype and lineweight properties of layers in a text file. Then, if you run it again in other drawing, select option "Previous" instead of selecting object, saved properties will be re-used. This feature enables JTB_VPMA command works across drawings.

Ribbon Icon	Command	Command Description
	JTB_VPLAYER	Set viewport override linetype and lineweight of selected layers to preferences. Preferences are set by JTB_VPSETTINGS command.
	JTB_VPMA	+ Match override linetype and lineweight of selected layer to other selected layers. + Match override linetype and lineweight of all layers in selected viewport to all layers in other selected viewports. + Use "Previous" option to match previous selected override linetype and lineweight properties to target layers or viewports.
	JTB_VPCLEAR	Clear VPLAYER override linetype and lineweight of selected layers, or all layers in selected viewports.
	JTB_VPSETTINGS	Set preference viewport override linetype and lineweight properties.

Trial license available for 30 days.

About Overriding Layer Properties in a Layout Viewport using out-of-the box AutoCAD functionality.

In a layout, you can assign a set of unique display properties for each layout viewport. These settings override those in the Model tab.

The following properties can be changed: Freeze\thaw, Color, Linetype, Lineweight, Transparency, Plot style

On a layout, double-click inside a layout viewport to make it the current viewport. In the Layer Properties Manager, specify the properties to override in the current layout viewport by changing the properties in the following columns: VP Freeze, VP Color, VP Linetype, VP Lineweight, VP Transparency, VP Plot Style
Any objects with properties set to ByLayer will use the layer properties for that layout viewport instead of the global layer properties. Every layout viewport can have its own set of layer overrides.

Right click in the Layer Manager to access Remove Viewport Overrides for Selected Layers/All Layers In Current Viewport only/In All Viewports.

New Layer VP Frozen in All Viewports.

VP Freeze Layer In all Viewports Except Current/In All Viewports

VP Thaw Layer in All Viewports

LAYVPI command freezes selected layers in all layout viewports except the current viewport.

VPLAYER command is used to set layer visibility within viewports.

VPLAYEROVERRIDESMODE is a System Variable that controls whether layer property overrides for layout viewports are displayed and plotted.

VPLAYEROVERRIDES is a System Variable that indicates if there are any layers with viewport (VP) property overrides for the current layout viewport.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.4.0
- Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-07-09 - version 2/3.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
2021-04-13 - version 2.2.2
- Added AutoCAD 2022 support.
2020-08-16 - version 2.2.1
- Upgraded to License 4.3
2020-05-10 - version 2.2
- Added AutoCAD 2021 support.
2019-03-28 - version 2.1
- Added AutoCAD 2020 support.
2018-03-22 - version 2.0
- Added AutoCAD 2019 support.
- Network licensing made available
2017-03-21 - version 1.0
- First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Pragrup Amoorthsiti

Brickner

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

This batch attribute editor app for AutoCAD and BricsCAD and collects attributes in all blocks of specified name patterns in multiple drawings and display in a wide spreadsheet. Then you can edit attribute texts as easy as working with Excel. Once done, click "Apply Attribute Changes" to update values to drawings.

This makes it a great app to for example edit title block attributes across many drawings instead of having to do it one drawing at a time.

If you want to export the attributes to Excel use the "Export - Import" button. Optionally you can make modifications in Excel for example with help of functions and formulas and then import back.

Here's an animation how it works:

With this app you can add or modify fields in attributes. Useful for example if you make a change of the title block used by Sheet Set Manager.

Copies or clones of blocks can be created.

Here's a user review from the Autodesk App Store:
"Numder #1 app for batch attributes editions. Very easy to navigate and modify attribs. Great contact with support. HIGHLY RECOMMEND !!!" - Romek M

Download

Download JTB BatchAttEdit 4.6.0.zip with installer for both AutoCAD and/or BricsCAD.

If you purchased on or after April 18, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

Trial License will expire in 15 days after running the app for the first time. In Trial Mode, you can work with up to 10 drawings only. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB BatchAttEdit can be downloaded on Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

BricsCAD Pro or Platinum 15 and newer is supported. BricsCAD Classic is not supported.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 95 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 18, 2022 the upgrade is free of charge.

Once you have purchased a license, follow the instructions and email to JTB World for the license activation key. Before activated, the app will run for 15 days. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase JTB BatchAttEdit from the Autodesk App Store site.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

To install, run "JTB BatchAttEdit <version>.exe", preferably when the CAD application is closed.

To install unattended here's an example:
"JTB BatchAttEdit 3.3.0 P.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\JTB BatchAttEdit.LOG”

To install unattended and also activate a network license here's an example:
"JTB BatchAttEdit 3.3.0 P.exe" /server="myservernamehere" /port=56712 /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /LOG=”%TEMP%\JTB BatchAttEdit.LOG”

Note: Once trial is installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire in 15 days after running the app for the first time. In Trial Mode, you can work with up to 10 drawings only.

Here's how to use the app:

Run JTB_BatchAttEdit command from command line or from ribbon button on Add-ins (or Plug-ins) tab
JTB BatchAttEdit window will show up. On the left panel, there are drawing lists and a log text box. On the right panel, there are block name wildcards, and a wide spreadsheet to display and edit attributes.
Enter Block Name Wildcards. You can specify more than 1 wildcard by separating them with ";". E.g. *title block*; *A3*. Click the drop-down arrow button to access recent wildcards that you have entered.
Click "Add" button to add drawings to a drawing list. This also triggers the app to scan all drawings. Firstly, it finds blocks that match the block name wildcard. Then, in each found block, attributes will be collected and shown on the spreadsheet.

Hint: after scanning the drawings, the log text box will list all block names in all drawings. If you don't find your block in the spreadsheet, check this list and edit your block name wildcard, hit Enter key to scan drawings again
Check or uncheck the Attribute Sync option. If Attribute Sync is checked, attributes of each found block will be synced with the block definition. Attributes that are not in definition will be deleted. Missing attributes will be created, using default attribute value
Right click on a drawing list and/or spreadsheet to access the popup menu of commands.
When working on the spreadsheet, you can select multiple cells, use keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+D to copy cell down; Ctrl+R to copy cell right; Ctrl+L to copy cell left; Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste text. Undo and Redo features are also available via Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcuts
You can also click "Clone selected block" command button in the bottom row of the Window. New rows will be created, duplicate selected rows. Clone blocks are within each drawing only.
Finally, click "Apply Attribute Changes"

Here's an animation how it works:

If you want to export the attributes to Excel use the "Export - Import" button. Optionally you can make modifications in Excel for example with help of functions and formulas and then import back.
Hide and show columns.

TIP: For multiline attributes Shift+Enter can be used to add a new line in a cell. This can be useful if editing multiline attributes that only contain one row and where the Edit Special Attribute dialog box is now showing up.

Options

Known issues:

We got one report of that the parts list in AutoCAD Mechanical was broken. It did not happen all the time so it might be due to other things than JTB BatchAttEdit.
This app doesn't work with nested mleaders. Contact us if you have the need for this functionality.
In AutoCAD 2020 and possibly older versions Sheet Manager fields might be broken if the DST is missing when updating a drawing.

If you want support for Forge, Vault, ProjectWise or anything else let us know.

Version History

2022-04-18 - version 4.6.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support.

2021-10-19 - version 4.5.1

Minor improvements in options.

2021-10-01 - version 4.5.1

Minor improvement: added option to set up a default location for export.

2021-09-12 - version 4.5.0

Added "Clone selected blocks" command.
Fixed editing position error: attributes didn't move with host block.
Enhanced multi-line attribute editing UI.

2021-08-30 - version 4.4.0

Enhanced column filter.
Fixed shading in highlighted modified cells.
Fixed error when using (Ctrl + C) to copy more than one cells in a row, but (Ctrl + V) paste only the first cell.

2021-08-23 - version 4.3.1

Export to Excel: prompt text row moved to header cell's comment (i.e. cell note)

2021-08-03 - version 4.3.0

Exporting to Excel: format sheet as table with auto filter.
Detect architectural length texts when sorting column.
Fixed an overflow bug in natural sorting.
Fixed a bug made length shown as ".5" instead of "0.5".

2021-07-27 - version 4.2.1

Minor fix in sorting texts with more than 1 number within, like the imperial length text.

2021-07-09 - version 4.2.0

Minor improvement in the file dialog window.
Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-06-19 - version 4.1.1

Fixed an error in working session initialization.

2021-06-13 - version 4.1.0

Shows the list of allowed values when editing a list-type dynamic property.

2021-06-03 - version 4.0.2

Fixed minor error

2021-05-18 - version 4.0.1

Fixed error in the installer for BricsCAD version 19 and earlier.

2021-05-09 - version 4.0.0

New features added: edit insertion points and dynamic block properties.
Working session can be saved to file.
Modified cells are highlighted.
Fix error showing and editing multiline text attribute in BricsCAD.

2021-03-29 - version 3.6.0

Added AutoCAD 2022 support.
Fixed license issue in version 3.5.

2021-02-27 - version 3.5.0

Enhanced the display and editing of fields
Fixed FillWeight error in spreadsheet if 650+ attribute columns is loaded.
Added natural sorting option

2021-01-26 - version 3.4.0

Fixed bug: attribute exported to Excel was converted to date and lost its original text value.
Fixed bug in multiple wildcard filter.
Sorting upgraded to detect numbers.
Fixed bug show/hide columns setting is not saved within a session.
Fixed error if Enter key was pressed after editing cell.

2020-07-18 - version 3.3.0

Fixed edit MLeader error in AutoCAD.
Upgraded to License 4.3.

2020-05-08 - version 3.2.2

Minor change.

2020-04-25 - version 3.2.1

Upgrade the License functions.

2020-04-04 - version 3.2.0

Added AutoCAD 2021 support.

2019-11-14 - version 3.1.1

Fixed error when attribute can't be edited if tag contains space.

2019-07-29 - version 3.1.0

Under the [Add][+] menu, new "Select blocks on screen" option is added for you to edit a selection, rather than the whole drawing.

2019-06-14 - version 3.0.2

Installing unattended via command line and activate a network license server can now be done
Fixed a critical bug in loading the spreadsheet
Solved an issue in the network license

2019-06-03 - version 3.0.1

Fixed a bug in progression bar
Fixed a bug in Block Name Wildcards
Fixed bugs that hotkeys on the spreadsheet didn't work in BricsCAD
Fixed a bug in BricsCAD's multiline attribute

2019-04-21 - version 3.0.0

Added BricsCAD support.
Added block's insertion point X, Y, Z columns.
Added Hide/Show columns option.
Fixed bug when pasting from Excel, an unwanted empty row is pasted at bottom of the selection.
Fixed bug when running AttSync, it resets value of empty attribute reference.

2019-03-28 - version 2.5.4

Added AutoCAD 2020 support.
Upgrade of the installation.

2018-12-21 - version 2.5.3

Fixed an unhandled error.

2018-12-14 - version 2.5.2

Fixed an error when importing empty cells, value = null.

2018-10-22 - version 2.5.1

Added "Options In Detail" window to clarify the process.
Added "Fit All Columns" command button.
Fix bug when Block Name Wildcards are multiple wildcards separated by ;.
Minor UI enhancement

2018-08-20 - version 2.4

Added support for MLeader's block.

2018-06-25 - version 2.3

Added quick scan option to speed up the process in case a drawing has thousands of blocks.
Zoom to block: including thaw its layer if layer is frozen (with a message at command prompt).
Fixed the Open File Dialog to include link source files.
Fixed issue in a case the [Zoom To] and [Select Block On Screen] buttons are disabled while they should be enabled.
Fixed bug since version 2.1: can't clear attribute value.
Other minor issues fixed.

2018-04-30 - version 2.2

Fixed error dynamic block not shown in the list.
Enhanced the spreadsheet to show very long attribute text.
Removed wrong log text of Import routine.

2018-03-30 - version 2.1

Add support for Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019
Add support for editing multiline attribute.
Add support for editing field code in attribute

2018-03-09 - version 2.0

Added Import / Export to Excel.
Add filter for each column.
Fix bugs in columns of attributes with similar tag.
Find block on screen. Zoom to selected block
Fix bug if block is on locked layer.
Enhance performance.
Fix bug in some automation cases.

2017-10-16 - version 1.0

First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Amazing - Dejan Cvetanovic | January 02, 2019

"Finally one really good and usefull to rule them all. I wish I got it 2 weeks ago so to save time on last minute client change. Simply amazing as well as support. Highly recomended"

MUST HAVE !!! - Romek M | May 22, 2018

"Numder #1 app for batch attributes editions.
Very easy to navigate and modify attribs.
Great contact with support. HIGHLY RECOMMEND !!!"

"I just downloaded this one. Very nice app. I wish I knew of this 2 or 3 years ago." - Randy Long

Some JTB BatchAttEdit Customers

Microdata Due S.r.l.

Infelmar Oy

UCLA Communication Techology Services

Richez_Associés

Admarel BV

ABB AB

GlaxoSmithKline

Adservco Group

WSP Canada

POWER Engineers

Alignment Design Group

APTL

Planungsbüro Nürnberger

D&P Technologies, Inc.

ReCon Management Services, INC

Fluid Quip Process Technologies, LLC

Bilfinger Industrial Services

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

AutoCAD has no Bind option available to bind raster images to a drawing. JTB Raster2OLE app for AutoCAD will help you to do that.

Run Raster2OLE and all raster images in the drawing will be converted to OLE objects.

Run Raster2OLE_Batch and all raster images in the drawing will be converted to OLE objects on multiple selected drawing files.

You may have company logos or other images (raster files) attached but customer or project CAD requirements might say that no external files are allowed.

This app even works for some images that IEMBED command in Raster Design fails to embed as it can only embed bitonal images.

What are Raster Images? Raster images consist of a rectangular grid of small squares or dots known as pixels. For example, a photograph of a house is made up of a series of pixels colorized to represent the appearance of a house. A raster image references the pixels in a specific grid. Common file formats are: .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff.

What is OLE? Object Linking & Embedding is a proprietary technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a Microsoft Windows technology, which does not work in AutoCAD for Mac. When you open a drawing that contains and OLE object, it does not display in AutoCAD for Mac.

In Autodesk's Revit when exporting to DWG all images are attached to the exported drawing as external references just like as if "Attach Image" or IMAGEATTACH is used within AutoCAD. The dialog box "Modify DWG/DXF Export Setup" (accessed via Export>CAD Formats>DWG or DXF, alternatively via Export>Options>Export Setups DWG/DXF) does not have any setting that will bind or embed images in the exported file.

In AutoCAD's External References Palette there is no Bind for image references and there is no Bind option for the -IMAGE command either. Raster image files are also included as separate files when using the ETransmit command even when "Bind external references" is used because it only binds DWG files.

No bind as can be seen running the -IMAGE command:
Command: -IMAGE
Enter image option [?/Detach/Path/Reload/Unload/Attach] <Attach>:

Current limitations: Images that are clipped, brightness adjusted, contrast adjusted, fade adjusted, with background transparency are not retaining their settings. AutoCAD doesn't support high resolution OLE image (possibly above 1600x1200 pixels). OLE image might turn out to be blank. If any of this needs to be addressed contact us.

Download

Trial License will expire in 15 days after first usage. In Trial Mode, you can't use the batch functionality. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Raster2OLE can be downloaded here, or in Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

Compatible with AutoCAD versions (2013 and up to AutoCAD 2023). Works with all flavors/verticals based on AutoCAD like AutoCAD Architecture (ACA), AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Electrical , AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP (AMEP, ABS), AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Advance Steel.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

50 USD for one license of JTB Raster2OLE or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase JTB Raster2OLE from the Autodesk App Store site.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. In Trial Mode, you can use Raster2OLE command only. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

Raster2OLE - All raster images in the current drawing will be converted to OLE objects. Command is available on the command line or from ribbon button on Add-ins (or Plug-ins) tab.
Raster2OLE_Batch - Batch process multiple selected drawing files. Command is available on the command line or from ribbon button on Add-ins (or Plug-ins) tab.
JTBW_Activate_Apps - Run this command to activate the app.

Note: Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. In Trial Mode, you can use Raster2OLE command only. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 1.6.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support.

2021-08-30 - version 1.5.0

Fixed bug of wrong OLE image created occasionally.

2021-07-09 - version 1.4.0

Fixed silent installation.

2021-04-13 - version 1.3.2

Added AutoCAD 2022 support.

2020-07-26 - version 1.3.1

Upgraded to License 4.3

2020-05-09 - version 1.3.0

Added AutoCAD 2021 support.

2019-03-28 - version 1.2.1

Added AutoCAD 2020 support.

2018-03-30 - version 1.2

Added support for rotated, mirrored raster images
Fix undo action

2018-03-22 - version 1.1

Added AutoCAD 2019 support.

2018-02-19 - version 1.0

First release

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Review:
Guy Smith - Perfect when we export Revit files into cad for upload to 4p, so we can include all the images into the cad file.

Some JTB Raster2OLE Customers

Hatch Mott MacDonald

Dos Océanos

Ove Arup and Partners Ltd

Top End Spatial Consultants Pty Ltd

Drafthouse

Grankraft Industries LLC

Fredon Industries ACT

Prota Mühendislik Proje ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri A.Ş.

JWR Engineering AB

Hilti Middle East FZE

GEC Contracting Services & Trading

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

Copy a rectangular window of selected objects out from your drawing, and trim everything outside the window's edges.

Very useful tool to quickly extract details from a master plan drawing.
Run TrimWindow command from the ribbon or command line, and you will be asked to pick 2 corners of a rectangle selection. Let's call it the TrimWindow.
Then, all supported drawings objects within the TrimWindow will be trimmed and copied to another location.
Notes
+ To trim 3D polylines, copied objects are flatten to the XY plane. Original objects are unchanged.
+ Supported object types are: 2D line, curve, 3D poly, dimension, leader. Text and hatch are copied only, not trimmed.

How it works

Works with 3D polylines

Settings Window

Copy to clipboard mode

YouTube Video showing how it works

Download

Trial License will expire in 15 days after first usage. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB TrimWindow can be downloaded here, or in Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

BricsCAD Pro or Platinum 15 and newer is supported. BricsCAD Classic is not supported.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

25 USD for one license of JTB TrimWindow or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Purchase JTB TrimWindow from the Autodesk App Store site.

Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

Run TrimWindow_Settings to bring up the settings window where you can select how TrimWindow generates the output:
+ Option to put all TrimWindow's object to an anonymous block
+ Option to run move command to move TrimWindow to a new location, or copy it to clipboard so that you can use PasteClip command to insert it later elsewhere
+ There is also a custom option requested by an AutoCAD Architecture client. This option creates a reactor that runs command ShowModelSpaceViews after any Regen command.
Then, you can run TrimWindow command by clicking to the ribbon, or type its name to the command line, and follow the on-screen instructions. (See About section above).

TrimWindow - Copy a rectangular window of selected objects out from your drawing, and trim everything outside the window's edges.
TrimWindow_Settings - Select output options of TrimWindow command.
JTBW_Activate_Apps - Run this command to activate the app.

Supported object types are: 2D line, curve, 3D poly, dimension, leader. Text and hatch are copied only, not trimmed.

Note: Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.2.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support

2021-09-06 - version 2.1.0

Fixed error of Xref falsely detected as not found.

2021-07-10 - version 2.0.0

Added support for BricsCAD.
Fixed error when working with non-uniformly scaled block.
Removed messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-04-13 - version 1.1.2

Added AutoCAD 2022 support

2020-08-16 - version 1.1.1

Upgraded to License 4.3

2020-05-09 - version 1.1.0

Added support for AutoCAD® 2021.

2019-03-28 - version 1.0.2

Added support for AutoCAD® 2020.
Updated installer.

2018-12-27 - version 1.0.1

Initial release.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Some JTB TrimWindow Customers

Professional Shop Drawing Services

Fenstertechnik Weinfurtner GmbH

Bay Crane Service

Wade Metal Products

Glass Systems, Inc. MI

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

JTB Rebar is a BIM-like Rebar Callout - Automatic Rebar Table - Dynamic Beam Detailing app for AutoCAD.

JTB Rebar app has two sections. First section is generally about the "Rebar Callout" block. Second section is for rebar detailing commands. Currently, in the second section, there is 1 command available. It is JTBW_DETAILBEAM command.

Section 1 - Rebar Callout

The key object of JTB Rebar app is a special dynamic block named "Rebar Callout", used for tagging rebars.
All the information of a rebar will be written to "Rebar Callout" block's attributes: rebar size, bending shape and dimensions, number of rebars, rebar mark and rebar table name (or barlist name).

Various settings available

JTB Rebar gives you 2 commands helping you to work efficiently with the "Rebar Callout" block. They are JTBW_InsertRebarCallout and JTBW_EditRebarCallout.

Note that, there is no synchronization between the Rebar Callout block and the rebar line or pline object. Once drawing is changed, you have to run JTBW_EditRebarCallout to update the information.
But once you have all rebar callouts with correct bending information, the app can generate Rebar Tables (or Barlist Tables) across drawings for you. Rebar Callout blocks are like BIM objects, and the rest of the work is automatic:

Run JTBW_GenRebarTables command, then select drawings. The app will parse all rebar callouts in all selected drawings, group similar rebars to groups, then assign unique rebar marks to them.
Next, it will create or update existing Rebar Tables (or Barlist Tables) in each drawing.

All rebar callouts in all selected drawings will have their mark updated.
Finally, all rebars information will be updated to Rebar spreadsheet.xlsx Excel workbook.

Section 2 - Beam Detailing Commands

The command's name is JTBW_DetailBeam. If you are drafting multi-span beam with varying heights every day, then this command can be a game changer for you.
The unique feature of the app is you don't have to enter beam's dimensions to a window with text boxes and combo boxes, etc. !

The input form for the beam is the AutoCAD drawing itself! You draw your beam sketch, fill information to input blocks of beam section, rebar, rebar tie, anchor, etc. You can also copy your sketch to make another beam!

Then, based on your sketch, JTBW_DetailBeam command will generate the final drawing of the beam.
Moreover, beam's rebars will be tagged properly by "Rebar Callout" blocks. Therefore, to create the Rebar Table (or Barlist Table), it is just one click away by running the JTBW_GenRebarTables.

Videos

Insert and Edit Callouts

GenRebarTable

DetailBeam

Switching Unit

Trial License

Trial License is available for 15 days after first usage. Trial license is for evaluation, non commercial and educational purpose only.

Download

Trial License will expire in 15 days after first usage. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB Rebar can be downloaded here, or in Autodesk App Store.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

195 USD for one license of JTB Rebar or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Purchase JTB Rebar from the Autodesk App Store site.

Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

Full documentation is found here.

Note: Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 2.3.0

Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 support

2021-07-09 - version 2.2.0

Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.
Minor improvement in the file dialog window.

2021-04-13 - version 2.1.2

Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2022 support

2020-07-24 - version 2.1.1

Upgraded to License 4.3

2020-05-09 - version 2.1.0

Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2021 support

2019-07-08 - version 2.0.2

Dialog box improvements to better handle different Windows text scale settings
Updated installer
Added ability to install and configure for network license usage through command line
Now installs to ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\JTB Rebar.bundle

2019-03-28 - version 2.0.1

Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2020 support

2018-12-27 - version 2.0

Added Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019 support
Upgraded the framework and enhanced the UI.

2016-08-01 - version 1.0

Initial release.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Some JTB Rebar Customers

Iron Horse Design Group

Post-Tension Services of Texas

SKM STEEL HOLDINGS Co., LTD.

Acier d’Armature des Cantons

The University of Akron

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

No more headache with "File Not Found" errors showing all over your Xref palette. With JTB FixRefs, you can handle fixing them all on a spreadsheet. If you find AutoCAD's Reference Manager limited in functionality try JTB FixRefs.

First, you select drawings, or all drawings in a folder and/or subfolders. A spreadsheet will bring up and list all your reference files in all your drawings, including Xrefs, Datalinks, Raster Images, PDFs, DWFs, and DGNs.

There are Saved Paths column and Fixed Paths column

If files not found, in most cases, JTB FixRefs can automatically find them for you and show them in Fixed Paths column.

Finally, click the "Run" button. Then, JTB FixRefs will go through listed drawings and external references and apply the new specified paths.

Additional Features:

Version of updated DWG files is retained.
Filter your drawings and references.
Convert file paths from absolute paths to relative paths and vice versa.
Rename the reference objects.
Detach, Unload, Reload.
Bind xrefs.
Option to retain date modified after saving.
Button to open drawing's folder in Window Explorer.

Trial license is available for 15 days since first installation. Trial license is also limited to process up to 10 drawings only.

Download

Trial License will expire in 15 days after first usage. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB FixRefs can be downloaded here, or in Autodesk App Store or by contacting us.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

New license: 95 USD for one license of JTB FixRefs or less depending on the quantity of licenses.

Purchase directly from us. Click on Buy Now below.

Purchase JTB FixRefs from the Autodesk App Store site.

Upgrade license: 45 USD for one license of JTB FixRefs or less depending on the quantity of licenses. If you purchased on or after April 25, 2020 the upgrade is free of charge.

If you have really many users that you want to give access to this software we can discuss a discounted price based on your particular situation. Educational discounts available.

Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 15 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

Documentation

See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

Start the app from the Add-ins tab on the Ribbon or with the command FixRefs.

Select files or folders.

Use checkbox "Including Xref Drawings If Found" to also add any found xrefs to the list of drawings.

Checkbox Retain Date gives the option to retain date modified after saving.

This is how JTB FixRefs find the missing reference file:

For example when your old file path is "T:\A\B\C\D\E\Your Ref Filename", and you move your host drawing to a new folder "M:\New Location\Project 1", and you change the subfolder structure a little. Then, JTB FixRefs will check these file paths to see if it is available:

"M:\New Location\Project 1\A\B\C\D\E\Your Ref Filename"

"M:\New Location\Project 1\B\C\D\E\Your Ref Filename"

"M:\New Location\Project 1\C\D\E\Your Ref Filename"

"M:\New Location\Project 1\D\E\Your Ref Filename"

"M:\New Location\Project 1\E\Your Ref Filename"

"M:\New Location\Project 1\Your Ref Filename"

In case all those file paths do not exist, you have to enter the new file paths to the Fixed Paths column. Since it is a spreadsheet, it is pretty easy to do using copy, paste tools

You can select all the spreadsheet, copy and paste it to Excel. Then, in Excel, you can edit the paths using Excel's more powerful tools like Find and Replace, functions, etc. Finally, paste the data back properly to JTB FixRefs.

There are two tabs in the JTB FixRefs windows: the "Drawings" tab and the "External References" tab.

On each tab, you can see additional info of drawings and references objects: error when open drawing, error when saving drawing, drawing version, file not found, object is unreferenced, error when run fixing.

Known issue:

If your drawing is already open, renamed object won't appear on the External References palettes until drawing is saved and reopen.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 3.3.0

Added AutoCAD 2023 support.

2021-10-21 - version 3.2.2

Fixed bug in renaming xrefs

2021-10-19 - version 3.2.1

Fixed bug in renaming xrefs

2021-09-12 - version 3.2.0

Added Bind Xrefs command.

2021-07-15 - version 3.1.0

Minor improvement in the file dialog window.
Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-06-19 - version 3.0.1

Added Test to Bind Xrefs (did not work good enough)

2021-06-08 - version 3.0.0

Added Detach, Unload, Reload commands
Added command to change Xref from Attached to Overlay and vice versa
Highlight edited paths
Add Edit commands to find and replace texts, and copy file names from column to column.

2021-04-13 - version 2.0.1

Added AutoCAD 2022 support

2020-09-12 - version 2.0.0

Retain drawing's thumbnail and xref override properties after saving
Added option to retain date modified after saving
Added button to open drawing's folder in Window Explorer

2020-07-26 - version 1.5.0

Add support for DXE files
Upgrade to License 4.3

2020-05-08 - version 1.4.0

Added AutoCAD 2021 support.

2019-11-08 - version 1.3.0

Fixed error when scan drawings in a root folder or if some of the sub folders are not accessible.
Improved select drawings action with new options.

2019-06-30 - version 1.2.4

Fixed compatibility issue with the new version of the grid.

2019-06-03 - version 1.2.3

Minor UI bug fixed.

2019-05-20 - version 1.2.2

Minor UI issue fixed.

2019-04-22 - version 1.2.1

Minor change in rename command.

2019-04-15 - version 1.2.0

Initial release.

License agreement

The license agreement is found here.

Customers

Some JTB FixRefs Customers

ARUP

Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson

AECOM

Clark

SSFM International, Inc.

JTAM Engineering, LLC

Goldfish and Bay

Poe & Associates, Inc.

C.E.M. SOLUTIONS, INC

Adservco Group

More customers are found here .

If you want other features added feel free to contact us with your wishes.

About

"Flagstone (flag) is a generic flat stone, cut in regular rectangular or square shape and usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring. The name derives from Middle English flagge meaning turf, perhaps from Old Norse flaga meaning slab or chip."

Drawing a flagstone layout is a time consuming task. A chosen set can have up to 12 sizes. The pattern must look random and following strict rules:

1. No more than 4 tiles sit on a row (or a column), except at the boundary edge of the area.

2. 2 tiles in a row next to each other should be different size

3. No 4 tiles have their corners meet each other

Following these rules here is an example of the generated flagstone pattern.

There is no "hatch" pattern available in AutoCAD to do this. The array command is useless in this case. But for now, luckily, we offer the FlagStone command.

FlagStone command will ask you to select polylines and generate flagstone layouts over each one. It is not perfect. Each result is just a proposal, randomly generated. Sometime, it fails to find the tile to continue and stop. You have to run it again and again and choose the best layout. You might also have to adjust and combine layouts to create your final one. But for sure, FlagStone command will save you a lot of time since 90% of the task is automated and done.

Download

Trial license is available for 30 days after first usage. Support is available during the trial as well as after purchase.

JTB FlagStone can be downloaded here, or in Autodesk App Store or by contacting us.

If purchase has been done via Autodesk App Store the download is available on the Autodesk App Store My Downloads page. Sign in with the same account used when purchasing.

System requirements

Operating system: same as the CAD software is running on.

JTB World is an Autodesk Authorised Developer

Purchase

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Once installed, the app is running in Trial Mode, with Trial License. Trial License will expire 30 days after first usage. See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

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See activation instructions here: JTB World Apps Licensing.

General Usage Instructions

Start the app from the Add-ins tab on the Ribbon or with the command FlagStone.
Select a set of flagstone size. As you know, the set should be large enough. The more size you choose, the more option you have to fill the layout properly.

Then you will be asked whether you want a Rectangle layout, or a "Freestyle" layout. A rectangle layout will have 4 straight edges and flagstones on those edges will be aligned to fit. Meanwhile, a freestyle layout is just a fill to a polyline area. At edge of a freestyle layout, flagstones are not aligned to fit.
Next, you select polylines. Note that only straight polyline is supported.
The app will run and you can see its progression window. You can cancel it if it takes too long than expected.

Once done, the app will bring up AutoCAD TextWindow, show some logs and a quick flagstone size schedule. Then you will know how many flagstone tile of each size are laid.

The results are like in the screenshots.

Issues

Often, it happens that the app can't find a right tile to fit in at some position. Then, an error red tile is placed and the app will continue to run.
The Rectangle layout is the closest one that fit. It depends on the polyline's dimensions. You can adjust it manually, or make another run to find a better result. To get more varying results, you can change the input by shrink or enlarge your polyline some inches.
The result layout is a random proposed solution with error tiles marked as red. You should copy the input and run the command 3 or 5 times to choose the best result. You should also adjust the tiles manually where the app fails to find the right tile.

If the selected area is too large this dialog box warning will show.

Version History

2022-04-25 - version 1.6.0
- Added Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 support.
2021-07-09 - version 1.5.0
- Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

2021-04-13 - version 1.4.2

Added support for AutoCAD 2022

2020-07-26 - version 1.4.1

Upgrade to License 4.3

2020-05-09 - version 1.4

Added support for AutoCAD 2021

2019-10-15 - version 1.3

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