JTB Layouts2PDF updated for AutoCAD 2018

JTB Layouts2PDF has been updated for AutoCAD 2018.

JTB Layouts2PDF help you print selected layouts with selected plot style to one pdf file. Your current Page Setup on each layout will be used.

Free trial of JTB Layouts2PDF is available.

JTB Steel 1.4 released

JTB Steel 1.4 has been released and comes with these news:

• Added support for AutoCAD 2018.
• Option to change color of hollow section's inner line

JTB Steel is an app that adds 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):

Free trial of JTB Steel is available.

RVT Columns for Explorer updated for Autodesk Revit 2018.

RVT Columns for Explorer has been updated to support Autodesk Revit 2018.

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

Show the Revit version and Revit build in Explorer columns.

Free trial is available.

JTB XClipClean 2.1 released

JTB XClipClean 2.1 has been released and comes with these news:

• Minor bugs fixed that could cause the app to not work on some drawings
• Added support for AutoCAD® 2018

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.

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.

TimberTool updated for AutoCAD Architecture 2018

TimberTool 2.0 supports AutoCAD Architecture 2018.

TimberTool makes it easy to convert closed polylines into mass elements and makes the bounding box width and depth correct for scheduling purposes. The product was initially created for usage with timber but works with lumber, structural steel or concrete shapes.

Classification Definition Tools updated for AutoCAD Architecture 2018

JTB World’s Classification Definition Tools has been updated for AutoCAD Architecture 2018 and AutoCAD MEP 2018.

• AutoCAD Architecture Classification Definitions cannot be exported or imported. With the help of this app this is possible.
• Some classification structures can be very large and complicated and this tool can help to avoid the need to type everything manually.

JTB Catenary updated for AutoCAD 2018

JTB Catenary has been updated for AutoCAD 2018.

This JTB Catenary app for AutoCAD makes it easy to create or draw a catenary curve as a polyline by specifying the start and end point and the length and optionally a diameter (width) or sag. This can be useful for drawing freely hanging cable, hose, chain, transmission line, anchor line (anchor rode), cord, rope, string, suspension bridge cable, arch, hawser, wire or the like.

Below the catenary has been created with a distance of 1000 between start and end and a sag of 100 has been specified, creating a true catenary curve with the length of 1026.

DigSigStamp updated for AutoCAD 2018

JTB World’s DigSigStamp has been updated for AutoCAD 2018. This app allows you to specify a block that will change its display when plotted to indicate whether the drawing had a valid digital signature at the time of plotting. The app helps you identify visually when drawings have valid digital signatures.

The following are just examples of how the blocks can look like. The design of them is completely up to you. Digitally Signed example. This drawing has a valid digital certificate.

Invalid. This drawing does not have a valid digital certificate.

Unverified example. Digital signature verification application is not enabled.

Windows 10 Game Mode for CAD software

I’ve not done any comparable test but it might be worth to give it a try to see if the new Game Mode that comes with Windows 10 Version 1703 (Windows 10 Creators Update) can help you hardware intensive software like CAD. It could be AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Navisworks, BricsCAD, CATIA, Siemens NX, Solid Edge, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, etc.

This Windows tool is not limited to games and works for most any software. Running a software in Game Mode tells Windows that you’d like to focus on the software in terms of system resources. Unwanted and non-priority background processes will be stopped automatically or run with lower priority.

First you need to turn Game Mode on in the Windows Settings area, then enable it for each software as well. To do this, open the Windows Game Bar (Windows key + G) with the software running, and check the "Use Game Mode for this game" box. In the Game Mode Bar click on Settings to disable it for the software by unchecking “Remember this as a Game”.

You can also take screenshots and record videos with this tool.

See also Windows 10 Game Mode missing and solution

Windows 10 Game Mode missing and solution

If you can’t find Gaming in Settings and activate (press Windows key + G) the new Game Mode even though upgrading to Windows 10 Version 1703 (Windows 10 Creators Update) it might be that you need to install Media Feature Pack for N edition of Windows 10 Version 1703 from the Microsoft Download Center.

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 Batch Change 1.5 adds support for AutoCAD 2018

JTB Batch Change 1.5 comes with support for AutoCAD 2018.

With this app you can do a lot of different automation tasks for AutoCAD in batch mode on multiple drawings at once.

With Batch Rename Objects you can rename layers in hundreds of drawing by substituting text "Concrete" with "CONC", or add a prefix of "AC " to each layer's name

• Find and replace text on multiple drawings.
• Import and update all blocks from a standard drawing to hundreds of other drawings.
• Replace all inserted blocks "DOOR-BD3" in layer "Archs" with block "DOOR-AC1", and move them to layer "ARCH-FURN"
• Change all texts whose styles are not prefixed with "ELEC" to "ELEC Standard" style, then change all block's attributes whose tag is "DATE" to current date.
• Convert all your inserted blocks from dynamic to static, or to anonymous blocks.
• Flatten all your drawing objects by setting all Z coordinates to 0.
• Unload or Detach xrefs or change their name, file name or path.
• Batch change drawing properties
• Perform Batch Audit and Purge
• And much more.

TransTips updated for AutoCAD 2018

JTB World’s TransTips for AutoCAD now supports AutoCAD 2018.

This app can be used to translate the contents of tooltips in various Autodesk products automatically into one of 43+ languages via Microsoft's Bing online translation service. The translated text is stored in a local cache of XML files, which can also be edited and used by the app.

JTB Align Plus updated for AutoCAD 2018

JTB Align Plus is an app for AutoCAD that now supports AutoCAD 2018. This app helps to align text and blocks to lines and curves. Check out all productivity features this app has at JTB Align Plus, a trial is available so you can give it a try.