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double click on pro-e file to open pro-e and file displayed

double click on pro-e file to open pro-e and file displayed

double click on pro-e file to open pro-e and file displayed

(OP)
Hi,
I want to double-click a pro-e part file and open pro-e with file displayed in it. I guess with the naming conventions that pro-e follows, this is not directly possible as with other applications on windows. Like MS word, double clicking on a doc file opens and displays the file word, this does not happen with pro-e.
Other cad systems provide this functionality. Is there a way to achieve this is pro-e?
I am using pro-e wildfire version on windows 2000.

thanks for your help in advance.

abhijit deshmukh

RE: double click on pro-e file to open pro-e and file displayed

It does work that way on windows with Wildfire as long as you have installed the program on your machine. If you are using a shortcut to a network load of Pro/E then the associations that get installed into your machines regeistry aren't set.

You can set the file associativity manually, but it would be a real pain for all of the .# extensions that Pro/E has.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: double click on pro-e file to open pro-e and file displayed

(OP)
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your reply. I was trying this on a machine where I did not have administrator privileges. It did not work and thus I posted it in the forum. After your reply I tried this on another machine with admin privileges and it did work.
By any chance, do you know of any such problem wher the functionality does not work without admin privileges? Are there any settings to be done to allow access of the functionality to all users on the machine?

Thanks a lot again for answering this seemingly silly question here !!

abhijit

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