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JTB SSMPropEditor 2024.3.0 released with AutoCAD 2025 support

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:05:00 +0000

JTB SSMPropEditor 2024.3.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes.

Added support for AutoCAD 2025.
Find and Replace improved in many ways and some bugs fixed.
Sorting of sheets improved and some bugs fixed.
Drag and drop sheets improved and bugs fixed.
Sheet indexing bugs fixed.
Callout blocks dialog box improved.
Layout renaming bug fixed.
Tooltip for sheets improved.
License Activation required to upgrade to this version. Free upgrade if purchased within last two years.

Are you using the Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD, GstarCAD and BricsCAD, NanoCAD Plus/Pro, Graebert's ARES Commander 2022 and newer, DraftSight 2021 and newer, ZWCAD 2023 or newer, or AutoCAD Architecture's Project Navigator (PN) Sheet Set View? If you do, then SSMPropEditor will help a lot, save time and effort updating sheet properties and sheet custom properties across multiple sheets with its DST editing capabilities.

Free trial of JTB SSMPropEditor available.

JTB FlexReport 2023.12.0 - EPLAN HTML usage report

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:33:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport 2023.12.0 is now ready.

JTB FlexReport Core
- HTML support for EPLAN added.
- Sentinel lsmon parsing bug fix.
- ELM/EPLAN user names correctly parsed.
- Added support for temporary Vertex licenses.
JTB Process Monitor Client
- MSI installer provided for alternative unattended setup.

See the version history for all details.

Trial is available if you want to give it a try.

If your maintenance has expired you can try the new version for a few weeks, if you want to keep using it contact us to renew the maintenance. The upgrade is free of charge for customers with active maintenance.

What is JTB FlexReport? JTB FlexReport is a license usage report tool for applications licensed using network license systems like FlexNet (FlexNet), IBM LUM, DSLS, SPLM, Sentinel, LM-X, RLM, EPLAN (ELM), HASP, DPT, Tebis, CodeMeter among others. Track usage over time, hours used and much more. With JTB Process Monitor much more can be monitored like Bentley MicroStation, Autodesk Named User licenses and Autodesk Flex.

If you have FlexNet licenses check out our JTB FlexReport LT freeware. App for AutoCAD available.

Autodesk user? See these posts:

You may still find use for JTB FlexReport together with JTB Process Monitor. We can help analyze your historic usage so you can prepare for the switch.

If you find Autodesk's reporting is not enough our JTB Process Monitor could be a complement as it can also show both total and active usage both of Autodesk products and pretty much any other product you might want to track usage of.

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.12.0 released (Sheet Set Manager Editor)

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:14:00 +0000

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.12.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes.

Several Find and Replace dialog bugs fixed.
Performance bug fixed while opening and operating certain Sheet Sets with no existing UNC paths.
Bugs fixed related to renaming of actual DWG files.
Import bug fixed for renaming and sheet number issue with extra space added.
Selecting one or more properties and don’t use checkboxes, it's now possible to use copy to clipboard.
Added tool tip to Recent Sheet Sets that shows the folder of the Sheet Set.
Tool tips added for QAT buttons.
Sheet Tool Tips has more info.
Close a Sheet Set showing "Do you want to save the changes to the Sheet Set?" adds a Cancel button and fixes a bug where No still saved changes.
Exit the app may show "Do you want to close JTB SSMPropEditor?". Cancel button has been added.
"Use Show Properties" checkbox now retains its setting.
Bug fixed where backup settings is not saved and restored.
Height of Sheet Set and project control areas increased a bit so the vertical scrollbar is not showed by default.
Backup of renamed or moved DWG files copied to %temp% folder as an extra precaution.

Free trial of JTB SSMPropEditor available.

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.6.0 released (Sheet Set Manager Editor)

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:17:00 +0000

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.6.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes. Here are some from the last 2 versions:

File menu now resizable.
New tooltips while hovering over sheets.
Improved colors so it is easier to read text that is edited.
Fixed callout block bugs.
Added support for AutoCAD 2024.
Performance issues fixed.
Vault performance issues fixed.
Fixed bug where sorting was not saved as expected.
Fixed import bugs.
Other minor bug fixes.

Free trial of JTB SSMPropEditor available.

Solution for modified Excel .xlam not saved after saving

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 11:33:00 +0000

I tried to digitally sign a .xlam (Excel Macro-Enabled Add-In) but no matter what modifications I did to the file the changes were not saved. Even if I put a copy of it in a different folder it did not help. I tried to disable all Add-ins, restarted Excel and tried to modify and save to no avail.

Have you seen this behavior? If so, I was able to solve it by starting Excel in safe mode (holding Ctrl down while starting Excel) and then open the .xlam file, modify and sign it.

JTB FlexReport 2023.2.0 - DSLS license monitoring improvements

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:42:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport 2023.2.0 is now ready. JTB Process Monitor has also been updated.

See the version history for all details.

Trial is available if you want to give it a try.

If you have FlexNet licenses check out our JTB FlexReport LT freeware. App for AutoCAD available.

Autodesk user? See these posts:

You may still find use for JTB FlexReport together with JTB Process Monitor. We can help analyze your historic usage so you can prepare for the switch.

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.1.0 released (the Sheet Set Manager Editor)

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:15:00 +0000

JTB SSMPropEditor 2023.1.0 has been released and comes with some improvements and fixes.

Free trial of JTB SSMPropEditor available.

JTB Sheet Set Creator 3.1.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:47:00 +0000

JTB Sheet Set Creator 3.1.0 is released and lately we added support for adding sheet and custom properties to existing Sheet Sets with a merging functionality. It is also a command line interface available.

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

Don't know what the Sheet Set Manager is? The Sheet Set Manager in AutoCAD is a great tool for organizing and managing large sets of drawings, particularly in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. It allows users to create a logical and structured organization of their drawings, making it easier to find and access specific drawings when needed.

One of the key benefits of the Sheet Set Manager is its ability to create a sheet index, which serves as a table of contents for the entire set of drawings. This index can be customized to include information such as the drawing title, sheet number, and revision status, making it easy to quickly identify and access the desired drawing.

In addition to the sheet index, the Sheet Set Manager also allows users to create drawing lists, which are essentially sub-sets of drawings that are organized based on specific criteria, such as discipline or phase. This can be particularly useful for project managers who need to quickly access a specific group of drawings for a particular task or for team members who need to focus on a specific aspect of the project.

Overall, the Sheet Set Manager is a valuable tool for anyone working with large sets of drawings in AutoCAD, as it helps to streamline the organization and management of these drawings, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

Download the upgrade or try it. JTB Sheet Set Creator

If you are using the Sheet Set Manager you can make batch edits of properties with JTB SSMPropEditor or make merge, purge and convert with JTB DST Tool or publish with JTB Batch Publish.

JTB Batch Publish 5.1.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:36:00 +0000

JTB Batch Publish 5.1.0 has been released. Background publishing for better performance and reliability is available and improvements when using Sheet Sets are some recent additions.

JTB Batch Publish is an app for AutoCAD and BricsCAD that publishes sheets in Sheet Sets, layouts in other drawings, folders or drawings in DSD files to files like PDF and DWF or images like PNG. 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.

Download is here as well as trial.

JTB ACA Tools for AutoCAD Architecture based toolsets

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:39:00 +0000

JTB ACA Tools comes with editing Tools for Property Sets, Classifications and List Definitions for AutoCAD Architecture (ACA) based products including MEP, Map 3D and Civil 3D.

With JTB Find, you are able to find and replace text in Extended Data tab in Properties, specifically for Property Sets and their Property Definition values.

With JTB PropsClassMapping, you are able to change Property Set values, Classification values of SPACE, WALL and DOOR according to the values of their other Property Set.

With ClassificationDefinition tools, you can import export AutoCAD Architecture Classification Definitions, avoid the need to type everything manually.

With ADTListDefinition tools, you can import, create and export ListDefinitions quick and easy.

JTB ACA Tools provides some useful lisp functions for AutoLISP programmers to modify property set and/or classification properties.

Free trial of JTB ACA Tools is available.

JTB FixRefs for BricsCAD

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:35:00 +0000

JTB FixRefs is now working on BricsCAD as well as previously supported AutoCAD.

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.

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.

Give JTB FixRefs a try.

Solution for Access error: There isn't enough free memory to update the display

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:59:00 +0000

I've got this error in Microsoft Access. There isn't enough free memory to update the display. Close unneeded programs and try again.

It happens to me when Access is opened with a custom form and accessing the computer with Microsoft Remote Desktop Android app.

I found that deleting this VBA key in the registry solved it. After a Windows or Office update I had to delete it again.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VBA

JTB Excel2TextField 2.0.0 link Excel to AutoCAD

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

JTB Excel2TextField 2.0.0 is released and now allow you to easily update references that been moved or renamed.

The app lets you connect fields in AutoCAD to Excel cell values. You can have Excel as the main source and when it is updated your drawings will be updated too. You can place fields in texts, mtexts, tables and/or block attributes.

Have your Excel updates to reflect in the drawing.

Animation of usage below by clicking on the image.

The FixExcelTextFields command will collect all source excel files and source worksheets, then show them all in an edit window. Useful if locations or names been changed.

Free trial at JTB Excel2TextField.

JTB FlexReport 2022.6.0 released - report usage on your expensive licenses

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:45:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport 2022.6.0 is now ready.

SQL Server related performance improvements and JTB Process Monitor Client performance improvements are the most important news.

See the version history for all details.

Trial is available if you want to give it a try.

If you have FlexNet licenses check out our JTB FlexReport LT freeware. App for AutoCAD available.

Autodesk user? See these posts:

You may still find use for JTB FlexReport together with JTB Process Monitor. We can help analyze your historic usage so you can prepare for the switch.

JTB FlexReport 2022.4.0 released - FlexNet monitoring and more

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:54:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport 2022.4.0 is now ready.

Try filter and data grouping in the list reports.

See the version history for all details.

Trial is available if you want to give it a try.

If you have FlexNet licenses check out our JTB FlexReport LT freeware. App for AutoCAD available.

Autodesk user? See these posts:

You may still find use for JTB FlexReport together with JTB Process Monitor. We can help analyze your historic usage so you can prepare for the switch.

Autodesk Network License Manager update needed for Autodesk 2020 and 2021

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:48:00 +0000

Autodesk Customers with Multi-user subscription or Token-flex implementation using Autodesk Network License Manager (NLM) are required to upgrade the Network License Manager to the latest version v11.18.x to support Autodesk 2020 and newer version products on and after April 1st, 2022. ref

To report on Autodesk Network License Manager, Named User or Autodesk Flex usage try our JTB FlexReport.

JTB Excel2TextField links Excel cell to AutoCAD field

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:01:00 +0000

JTB Excel2TextField lets you connect fields in AutoCAD to Excel cell values. You can have Excel as the main source and when it is updated your drawings will be updated too. You can place fields in texts, mtexts, tables and/or block attributes.

Have your Excel updates to reflect in the drawing.

Animation of usage below by coding on the image.

Free trial at JTB Excel2TextField.

JTB FlexReport 2021.10.0 released - monitor expensive license usage

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:22:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport 2021.10.0 is now ready.

We have added and fixed a lot of things in this release. New monitoring options and new reports. Better performance. Works with Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.

See the version history for all details.

Trial is available if you want to give it a try.

If you have FlexNet licenses check out our JTB FlexReport LT freeware. App for AutoCAD available.

Autodesk user? See these posts:

You may still find use for JTB FlexReport together with JTB Process Monitor. We can help analyze your historic usage so you can prepare for the switch.

Change attribute order of block in many CAD drawings

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:54:00 +0000

To change attribute tag order in one drawing use BATTORDER (AutoCAD) or BATTMAN (AutoCAD and BricsCAD). With it you can update the block definition of the block.

Then wblock out the block to a separate DWG file. In the example below it us C:\temp\TITLEBLOCK.dwg

In below example the block is named TITLEBLOCK so you will need to modify the name and path (separate folders with double backslashes). Save the AutoLISP code to an LSP file.

; redefine block with or without attributes from an external DWG block

(setq blockname " TITLEBLOCK")

(setq fullpath "C:\\temp\\TITLEBLOCK.dwg")

(if (tblsearch "block" blockname)

(progn

    (command "_.-insert" (strcat blockname "=" fullpath) "_Y")

    (command)

    (command "_.attsync" "_N" blockname)

)

)

Then you can use JTB SmartBatch to update all drawings with this LSP. Specify the use of the LSP in JTB SmartBatch Settings > Script/lisp file. Now add all drawings to be updated and you’ll have all title blocks or other blocks of your choice updated.

JTB FlexReport can monitor Autodesk Flex

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:48:00 +0000

Autodesk Flex is a new option to pay as you go for occasional product use. While you can get some usage reports from Autodesk they are limited.

When a user opens and signs into an Autodesk product included with Flex, they will be charged a daily rate per product once every 24 hours.

For example, a user opens and signs into AutoCAD from 8am-9am will be charged 7 tokens, same as a user using it the whole day. Even just starting and closing AutoCAD will cause a charge if 7 tokens (around $21). Revit will take 10 tokens.

With JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor you can get additional valuable reports to identify users that just use a product a short time per day. You can get the total time the product has been running as well as the active time the user used the product. With this users using the products just a short time can be identified.

JTB BatchAttEdit 4.5.0 - Batch edit block attributes in BricsCAD or AutoCAD

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:11:00 +0000

JTB BatchAttEdit 4.5.0 has been released.

In this version we added a "Clone selected blocks" command and other improvements.

This batch attribute editor app for BricsCAD and AutoCAD gathers attributes in all blocks of specified name patterns in multiple drawings and display in a spreadsheet. You can edit attribute texts just like in Excel. When ready, click "Apply Attribute Changes" to update values to drawings.

This is a great app to edit title block attributes across many drawings instead of having to do it one drawing at a time. How do you edit all title block data?

Dynamic block properties can be edited too.

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.

Try it for free by downloading from JTB BatchAttEdit.

For more of JTB World’s software that you might find useful visit our software list and our apps available on Autodesk App Store. We also offer custom programming services and can help you with both small and large projects where we specialize on the AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, Revit, BricsCAD, ZWCAD and other CAD platforms.

Redefine blocks across many drawings with JTB Batch Change

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:40:00 +0000

JTB Batch Change can simplify AutoCAD work like redefining blocks across many drawings.

On the Drawing List tab in the Excel file that comes with JTB Batch Change add all drawings you want to have updated.

This is the drawing I want to update.

On the Import tab select Block Definition as a command to use and select source drawing where the new block definition exists.

This is the updated block I want to apply to my drawings.

Select the row with the Import command and click on Run and select the drawings to update.

Here is the result.

There is much more JTB Batch Change can do. Take a look at the webpage and try it yourself.

Example of usage of JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:24:00 +0000

JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor have an open database making it possible for customers to create their own reports of app usage.

Jess Purcell at Shepley Bulfinch kindly shared her custom reports based on usage data tracked with JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor:

“We’ve done a couple significant things. For one, we’re using it to track app usage on people local laptops versus on our virtual desktops to understand who is using things locally instead of virtually, and what apps are getting more use in each location.”

“And I’m going to start using it for our Affinity Suite rollout to track adoption and usage of Affinity over Adobe CS6. I’m able to see specific app usage times, and identify people who haven’t tried it, or are using it a lot and could share their experiences. I’m also able to compare directly between the relating Apps (Photo and Photoshop, Designer and Illustrator, etc)”

“I built those dashboards in PowerBI, and I’m pulled some Deltek info in as well for department and if they are an active employee.”

Free trial of JTB FlexReport and JTB Process Monitor is available.

JTB Sheet Set Renumber for AutoCAD

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:29:00 +0000

JTB Sheet Set Renumber is a new app from JTB World to make life easier using AutoCAD’s Sheet Set Manager. Quickly renumber and insert total number to sheet set to show them up in fields [Sheet number]/[Total Number]

In many cases, we want to show up in our title block two fields Sheet Number / Total Number.

There is Sheet Number property in each sheet, but we have to manually edit it.

There is no Total Number property in the sheet set. We can create it as custom property, but again, we have to manually edit it.

So, this app is made to help. It assumes that sheet numbering is based on the same order of the sheets listed in your sheet set, and no sheet is excluded from the total number. Then, every time you reorder the sheets in sheet set, insert or delete sheets, run the app command "SheetSetRenumber" and all the Sheet Number, Total Number fields will be updated.

See video of usage here.

Example of before

and after deleting 1 sheet.

Free trial available at JTB Sheet Set Renumber.

JTB XClipClean 4.0.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (JTB World) — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:06:00 +0000

JTB XClipClean 4.0.0 has been released.

Upgrade from VBA to .NET improving performance and stability.
Remove messages about uninstallation in very-silent installation mode.

If you are using clipped xrefs or blocks you may find this app useful.

JTB XClipClean is an Xclip-cutter app for AutoCAD to clean up xrefs or blocks that been clipped so that the information that is outside the clip is removed. This is useful when you need to remove hidden geometry and minimize DWG file size.

AutoCAD allows blocks and xrefs to be clipped using the XCLIP command. Sometimes for different reasons you have to clean up the blocks or xrefs that have been clipped. JTB XClipClean can help you with that by deleting and trimming geometry that is outside the xclip boundary.

Revit does not handle xclipped blocks and xrefs so XClipClean can be useful to run on drawings before taking them into Revit.