iDwgTabs with Vista
I really like this add-on for Autocad. iDwgTabs is from a Korean company called BizIcom, so there is not much documentation and it is mostly in Korean. I think this will be one of the best dwgtabs programs available, if I can get past a few bugs that I believe are Vista related. The program has thumbnails, scripting, save and close, and all sorts of other options that are user definable. As I find out more options, I will be presenting them here. Hopefully other users will help me out so that we will have english documentation available.
First, they have an option to Autoload on Autocad Startup. This option does not seem to work. I can get it to Autoload only by putting it in the startup suite.
I also cannot get the options to stick by using the “Config Setting” option. The changes will be retained while you have Autocad open. Once you close and reopen, you lose your settings. I have found a way around this by editing the registry. Below is a list of the registry settings. All are the default, except “onetabhidden”=dword:00000000 which I changed to 0 from 1. I wanted the tabs to show up no matter how many drawings I had opened. That way the view does not change when you go from more than one drawings open to one drawing open.
The last thing is that the program always brings the config settings dialog up when I load the program. I assume this is a Vista issue (seems like it can’t read registry properly or something) , so maybe some XP users could let me know if this is actually how it is suppose to work.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom\iDwgTab]
“CurVer”=”1.0.3.72″
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom\iDwgTab\1.0.3.72]
“tool_path”=”C:\\cad\\IDwgTabs\\”
“onetabhidden”=dword:00000000
“tabicon”=dword:00000001
“tabvericon”=dword:00000001
“tabext”=dword:00000001
“tabfixwidth”=dword:00000001
“tabopensort”=dword:00000001
“docking”=dword:00002000
“zoomext”=dword:00000000
“onlymodify”=dword:00000000
“recentfileopen”=dword:00000000
“tooltip”=dword:00000001
“popup_offset_y”=”20″
“seltextcolor”=dword:00800000
“unseltextcolor”=dword:00808080
“startbgcolor”=dword:00f0f0f0
“midbgcolor”=dword:00f0f0f0
“endbgcolor”=dword:008e8e8e
“bgeffect”=dword:00000002
“usedlg_ctrltab”=dword:00000001