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This page contains a few Utilities I have found to be useful. They are third party utilities so I have no control over them. They were issued as freeware and I have not had any problems with them but disclaim any responsibility for them.

There are Three sets of downloadable files:-
If you do not want to download at this time you can go back to Homepage


The programs to download are listed below
click on title to go to download section:-

(1).2Xplorer

(2).DDSTEEL

(3).CADieu
2xEplorer



Any one who gets anoyed with windows explorer and has to do alot of pushing files around this is the bees knees. It has two file windows and allows for wild card filtering, so you display the files you want i.e. *.dwg or *m*.bak and drag then from one file window to the other file window to move or copy them. It has other featuers as well but this alone makes it owrth while having it on you desktop on its own.


Select here to download 2xExplorer
358 kb download
CADiew



This is an oddity but a usefull one - it is not 100 percent de-bugged but good enough. This is usefull for brousing files as it has filtreing for dwg bak txt etc. As you scroll through the list it brings up a thumbnal from the file in a box in the bottom corner. The main thing about this is that it is fast as it does nothing else. Great when you are looking for that drawing and you can not remember where it is. As it works with the thumbnail stored in the drawing it will only work on drawings 14 up.

Select here to download CADieu
1131 kb download

NOTE this is a link to the authors site where you download.
DDSTEEL



DDsteel is a nice utility for drawing 2D sections of steel on drawings. From pop up lists you select the section you require and it is drawn. It is accurate and the thicknessies of steel flanges are correct. (enough for architects needs) you get Columns Beams Angles Tubes etc, a neet little program.

Select here to download DDsteel (architectural)
9 kb download



HOW TO INSTALL UTILITIES:

2xExplorer and CADiew are stand alone programs that are
simply extracted from the zip files and loaded as normal using a
desktop icon to run the program.

DDsteel is an autocad lisp file and need to be put into the autocad
main directory. it can the be run from the command line or by creating
in Icon with the line below
(load"ddsteel");ddsteel

This can also be run from a popdown created in the New Utility KEC-Utils-4

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