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(When I installed it, an icon for this program was placed on my computer desktop.) Click 'Add.' Click 'Ok.' Repeat for '.dxf' and '.dwf'. Type '.dwg' in the small white box on the left bottom. On the left is a list of file type extensions handled by ActiveX. A popup shows the ActiveX document plugin viewer configuration screen. For me, 'ActiveX' is the first plugin on the list.)Ĭlick on words 'ActiveX Document' to select. (I don't know how much it matters, but you can re-order this list of plugins. The box next to 'ActiveX Document' should be checked. In Directory Opus, go to Settings > Preferences > Plugins.

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And I'm now using Directory Opus 9.ĭownload and install Brava Free DWG Viewer (which is a free ActiveX plugin).

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I should also mention that this computer is running Windows XP Pro, and our CAD software is CG Survey 7, with uses a licensed AutoCAD 2004 engine, so essentially we have a stripped-down version of AutoCAD 2004 on our computers.

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I uninstalled, reinstalled, tried other ActiveX-based CAD viewers and had a very frustrating time over the last couple of days.īut the good news is I had a breakthrough & figured out how to make it work today! There was something further that I discovered which had to be set correctly, something outside of the DOpus Preferences At that point, I couldn't get either dxf or dwg files to open. Since someone on the forum had just asked me about Brava Viewer and DOpus 9, I just upgraded to version 9 yesterday and installed the latest Brava Viewer. This should be just a minor inconvenience, but after one of those updates, I wasn't able to preview dwg files anymore, just dxf files. However, for some reason, the company that makes the Free DWG Viewer has designed it so that it 'expires' every four months, and you're forced to reinstall. Recently, someone else PM'd me, asking for any tips on how to get Brava Free DWG Viewer working inside DOpus 9.Īt the time of my original post (June 2006), I had downloaded & installed Brava Viewer & was able to look at dwg and dxf files in DOpus 8's filmstrip mode without having to do anything too tricky. Sorry not to have responded sooner, but I haven't been to the forum in many months, and also didn't have this thread set to send me notifications when it was updated. I found an interesting discussion & solution (though I've not personally tried it yet) for showing thumbnails in Windows Explorer for Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator file types: There are a couple of buttons which don't work in this unlicensed edition ('print,' for example), but you can pan, zoom (by a specified %, or in/out or zoom by window), turn layers on and off, change background color, change image to monochrome, rotate 90 degrees, etc. The Brava free DWG viewer is surprisingly useful for something free. I'm sure this is a grey matter problem on my part but you experience would save me from a major headache. I have downloaded the file and installed it on my system (XP Pro) but I can't find a way to enable it in Opus. Would you be kind enough to provide instructions on how to install and set up the Brava DWG viewer to work with Opus9.

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The 'Opus 82 Changes.pdf' file is an example of a PDF with the flag on, and the 'Directory Opus 8 Manual.pdf' is an example with the flag off. PDF files only get thumbnails if the PDF file has been saved with a flag which turns on thumbnails. You can control image preview saving in Photoshop from Preferences / File Handling: Image Previews.)

(That is, neither program will reconstruct the image by combining layers they rely on a flat image preview being in the file. PSD files only get thumbnails if they're saved with an embedded preview image. There are a couple of caveats with PSD and PDF thumbnails in Opus and Explorer, though. Opus has built-in support for viewing PSD files so that should never stop working but they do work in Explorer as well and PDF thumbnails are provided by the same thing (Acrobat Reader presumably) in Explorer and Opus. Edit: Oh, it looks like I never uninstalled Photoshop 7 which probably explains things. I don't have Illustrator but even after upgrading from Photoshop 7 to Photoshop CS2 (I skipped CS) I still get PSD and PFD thumbnails in Explorer and Opus. Thumbnails in Windows Explorer for Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator file types

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