JTB FlexReport 11.7.0 now with dark theme on HTML report

JTB FlexReport 11.7.0 is now ready.

We added a dark theme for the HTML report and by editing the CSS you can customize the design yourself. Compare example of the light and dark theme.

We also added checking for newer version of JTB FlexReport Core, Service and Client. There are some bug fixes too. See the version history for 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, IBM LUM, DSLS, SPLM, Sentinel, LM-X, RLM, EPLAN (ELM) among others. Track usage over time, hours used and much more.

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

JTB FlexReport 11.6.1 fixes export bug

JTB FlexReport 11.6.1 is now ready. There are some bug fixes. See the version history for 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, IBM LUM, DSLS, SPLM, Sentinel, LM-X, RLM, EPLAN (ELM) among others. Track usage over time, hours used and much more.

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

JTB FlexReport 11.4 released

JTB FlexReport 11.4 is released. There is one new feature and several bug fixes. See the version history for details.

The upgrade is free of charge for customers with active maintenance. If the maintenance has expired please contact us to renew.

Free trial of JTB FlexReport is available.

Do you wonder what JTB FlexReport is? JTB FlexReport is a license usage report tool for applications licensed using network license systems like FlexNet, IBM LUM, DSLS, SPLM, Sentinel, LM-X, RLM among others. Track usage over time, hours used and much more.

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

JTB World apps updated for AutoCAD 2020

Most of our apps have been updated recently.

We have apps for many purposes and if you can't find what you need please feel free to contact us.

AutoCAD 2020 and other Autodesk products have been released and others like Revit will soon be,  so we have updated our apps for them as well as for other CAD products like BricsCAD and GstarCAD.

Trial is available to download for most of our apps.

• JTB FlexReport for license monitoring and reporting.
• JTB FlexReport LT our freeware for FlexNet report in HTML format

Batch and scripting apps:

• JTB BatchAttEdit - Batch Attribute Editor
• JTB SmartBatch aka SmartPurger
• JTB CAD Automation Tools
• JTB Batch Change

Sheet Set Manager apps:

• SSMPropEditor
• JTB DST Tool
• JTB Sheet Set Creator
• JTB Sheet Set Publish
• Sheet Set Manager Path Edit

Windows Explorer apps:

• DWG Columns for Explorer - freeware version available
• DwgInfoTip - freeware version available
• RVT Columns for Explorer - for Revit files

Plot and publish apps:

• Batch Publish for AutoCAD
• JTB Sheet Set Publish - to publish any drawings to files with advanced naming functionality 
• JTB BlockPlotter
• JTB Layouts2PDF

Database DWG sync apps:

• ACAD_db
• ACA_db - for AutoCAD Architecture and MEP
• JTBsync for Revit

Other productivity, drafting and freeware apps:

• JTB Raster2OLE - bind attached images
• JTB Steel - draw steel profiles
• JTB TrimWindow
• JTB Align Plus
• DwgNotes
• JTB Sort Table
• JTB Layout Palette
• JTB VPLayer Tools
• JTB Text Bubble Plus
• JTB Layer Palette - for BricsCAD
• JTB XClipClean
• TimberTool - for AutoCAD Architecture/MEP
• DimNotes
• DimensionPatrol
• DigSigStamp
• Spiro - freeware for the fun of it
• OffsetInXref
• JTB Change Title for AutoCAD - freeware
• EduFinder - find educational stamped drawings
• JTB Catenary
• JTB Quick Perspective
• JTB Spot Elevation
• JTB Current Folder
• OsnapzBG - freeware
• OsnapzBG Plus
• Classification Definition Tools
• Palette Auto-hide Speed - freeware
• JTB Lisp
• JTB Drainage
• JTB AutoReset
• License Borrowed Dialog Closer - freeware
• JTB LayoutsToDwgs - freeware

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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, Revit and BricsCAD platforms.

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JTB FlexReport LT 1.6 FlexNet current usage HTML report for free

JTB FlexReport LT 1.6 is here, fixing /h command line argument problem making it not always work as expected so you can have the HTML report being created automatically.

If you look for a freeware to show what users are currently using FlexNet licenses JTB FlexReport LT is for you. With it you get a nice looking HTML report. Click here to see a sample HTML report.

JTB FlexReport LT 1.6 as an Autodesk App will be available within a few weeks.

If this is not enough and you also want historic usage reports and much more take a look at our JTB FlexReport product.

AreaText.lsp updated to add text with area on multiple objects

The freeware AreaText.lsp by JTB World now has two more commands added, ATC and ATM. You can easily modify the LSP to show the area with different units, settings, suffix, etc. The area is using a field so it is updated when the geometry is update.

Works with CAD applications supporting AutoLISP like AutoCAD and BricsCAD.

AT command: Select a polyline and where to place the text

ATC command: Select a polyline and add the text at the geo center of the selected object

ATM command: Select multiple objects and add the text at the boundary box center

License Borrowed Dialog Closer 1.3 for AutoCAD released

Our freeware app License Borrowed Dialog Closer has been updated to close the License Borrowed Dialog box “Lizenz entliehen” in German AutoCAD. If you don’t want to see the License Borrowed dialog box this app is for you and if you want support for other languages just send us a screenshot of the dialog box.

If you want to monitor borrowed network licenses take a look at our JTB FlexReport product.

DWG Columns for Explorer 4.1 adds DWG Editing Time

DWG Columns for Explorer version 4.1 by JTB World is now available.

DWG Editing Time column is new and shows how many hours and minutes the drawing has been edited. A lot of other DWG properties can be seen like DWG version and custom properties. See these in Explorer or file selection dialog boxes in your CAD product.

DWG Editing Time is the same thing as Total editing time that the commands TIME or DWGPROPS>Statistics are showing.

The app works with drawing files created or edited with products like AutoCAD, Revit, Dassault Systemes DraftSight, Caddie, CADopia, progeCAD, Bricsys BricsCAD, IMSI TurboCAD, GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD, GstarCAD, nanoCAD, MicroStation, ZWCAD+ and others.

A 30 day trial of DWG Columns for Explorer is available as well as a freeware version that only shows the DWG version column.

DWG Columns for Explorer 4.0

DWG Columns for Explorer 4.0 is now available and can now show up to 30 custom properties.

Enhance your experience with DWG Columns for Windows Explorer / File Explorer by showing the DWG and DXF properties and metadata in Explorer columns.

Even in file dialog boxes within AutoCAD or other applications like BricsCAD.

DWG Columns for Explorer is available as a trial as well as in a freeware version with limited functionality.

Palette Auto-hide Speed tips

With our Palette Auto-hide Speed freeware you can adjust how the palette roll-up/roll-out (show/hide or minimize/expand) for most palettes in AutoCAD and its verticals.

Here the tips: Set Roll-up to 0 (or higher if he want the palette to stay open longer after moving away from it) and Roll-out to a high value like 5000. Using this trick you either will need to click on the title bar of the palette to show it or wait 5 seconds hovering over it before it rolls out. 

 

Here’s an animation showing how it works and notice that just moving the mouse over the bar does not open the palette. It is first when clicking on the bar that the palette is opened.

Give Palette Auto-hide Speed freeware a try and use your preferred settings.

What do you want customized or automated? Take a look what we can do and Contact us.

BOMLengths.lsp AutoLISP freeware

Get the accumulated length of multiple objects with this free AutoLISP app. The total length of lines, circles, arcs, ellipses, polylines and splines are supported.

In this update it was added support for circles and ellipses and fixed a bug in the error handler.

BOMLengths.lsp has been tested on AutoCAD 2018 with this update but should work for other versions of AutoCAD as well and possibly on other CAD applications supporting AutoLISP like BricsCAD, DraftSight, GstarCAD, CADopia, IntelliCAD, progeCAD and ZWCAD.

How to convert block to xref in AutoCAD

Here are a couple of solutions if you run into a situation where you want to convert a block to xref.

One is to use the Express Tool command BLOCKTOXREF. See “Convert block to xref” on the Express Tools Ribbon tab.

It replaces all instances of a specified block with an xref. The command searches the entire drawing for references to a specified block name and replaces them with an xref that you specify. You can use this tool to unbind an xref, replacing the block with the original referenced drawing. Afterwards, you can use the PURGE command to remove the unreferenced block definition from the drawing. If the xref is not already existing use for example WBLOCK of the block in question and so the file is created before running the command. It can be run on the command line as well using -BLOCKTOXREF.

There is also BlockToXref.lsp that is a free app from JTB World that let you select one or many blocks in a drawing and change them to xrefs.

JTB LayoutsToDwgs freeware for AutoCAD

JTB LayoutsToDwgs is a freeware for AutoCAD that now is available with installer on Autodesk App Store.

If you have a multiple-layout drawing the LayoutsToDwgs command will save each of your layouts to a single-layout drawing. Model space is copied as is.
 
New drawings are named after the layouts, with a prefix and a suffix specified by you. Drawings are saved in source drawing folder.

License Borrowed Dialog Closer supports AutoCAD 2018

JTB World’s License Borrowed Dialog Closer freeware has been updated to work with AutoCAD 2018. This free app is great if you use a borrowed network license and want to prevent the "License Borrowed" message from showing up every single time you start AutoCAD.

JTB Change Title now for AutoCAD 2018

JTB Change Title freeware has been updated to work with AutoCAD 2018.

Sometimes there can be a reason why you want to change the application title in AutoCAD based products. It can be that you need to take nice screenshots for documentation for example. Instead of showing "Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 - UNREGISTERED VERSION" or "Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 - NOT FOR RESALE" you want it to show "Autodesk AutoCAD 2018" or something else. With JTB Change Title this can be done.

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Spiro freeware updated for AutoCAD 2018

Spiro is a freeware app can be used with AutoCAD to create Spirograph (TM)- like patterns. The app has been updated to work with AutoCAD 2018.

A variety of polylines created with the Spiro app in AutoCAD and its verticals.

Palette Auto-hide Speed 1.5 released

Palette Auto-hide Speed is a freeware by JTB World. With it you can change the time it takes to show/hide or roll-up/roll-out the palette windows in AutoCAD when you have activated Auto-hide.

Here is when Roll-up and Roll-out are set to 0 to speed it up as much as possible.

In Palette Auto-hide Speed version 1.5 we added testing to see if AutoCAD has been closed before applying the changes as well as added support for AutoCAD 2018.

DWG Columns 3.3 with DWG 2018 support

DWG Columns has been updated for AutoCAD 2018 and the new DWG 2018 drawing file format.

One good news with AutoCAD 2018 is that “The file navigation dialog boxes for operations such as Open, Save, Attach and many others now remember the sort order of the column. If, for example, you sort by file size or reverse sort by file name, the next time you access that dialog box it will automatically display files using that same sort order.”

How it works in Windows Explorer / File Explorer. Show DWG properties like version, what software the dwg was created by and more.

If you only want to see the DWG version there is a freeware version of DWG Columns available as well.

DwgInfoTip 1.6 with DWG 2018 support

JTB World’s DwgInfoTip 1.6 comes with support for the DWG 2018 drawing file format introduced with AutoCAD 2018. Here are the drawing metadata or properties that can be seen.

A freeware version is available that only shows the DWG version.

Autodesk Prerequisite Checker 1.0

Here’s a free system requirements analysis tool by Autodesk that can help to determine if your computer can run a particular Autodesk software product like AutoCAD or Revit.

“The Autodesk Prerequisite Checker analyzes the hardware and software environment of your computer and provides an output to let you know if you will be able to install and run a particular Autodesk product, or if you might run into difficulty.”

Read more about this tool and download it here.

It seems to have some issues though. Here’s what I found running a test on one machine. Obviously a horizontal resolution of 0 is incorrect.

It’s not yet been updated for Autodesk 2018 products.