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Anyone use a program called Viewport?

Anyone use a program called Viewport?

Anyone use a program called Viewport?

(OP)
Viewport is used at my company to let everyone see the latest controlled version of our 2D prints. An HPG file is created from UG and then imported into Viewport as a vector file. UG is our main CAD software but we've been told to switch to SolidWorks. The only kind of file I can print to in SW has a PRN extension. I renamed the extension from PRN to HPG but Viewport would not recognize it. How do I get a Solidworks print file into a format that can be read by Viewport?

Thanks for your help.

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

Not familiar with Viewport, but have you tried eDrawings instead? It can read native SW files, so no need for file conversions.

cheers

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

Sounds pretty stoneage.  Why not PDF?

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

(OP)
I have tried eDrawings (and like it) but I don't think the company is willing to give up on Viewport.

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

If the HPG file happens to be HPGL or HPGL-2, the data format for HP’s pen plotters then you could install the driver for one of those plotters and print to a file using it.  It will still end in .PRN but once you rename it to .HPG, Viewport may recognize it.

Eric

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

dbtruckers,
Can you post the home URL for the Viewport program. I'm having trouble finding it.

cheers

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

????

Your company would rather pay $295 to $795 than use the free eDrawing viewer?

cheers

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

(OP)
Yep, there's nothing I can do about it. That's not the issue at hand.

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

It looks like Viewport can open files with the following extensions: TIF, GIF, JPG, BMP, CAL, CG4, GP4, RAS, PLT, HPG, HGL, TXT,  XLS, PPT, DOC, PDF, AVI,  MPG.  Since PDF is in that list, why don't you just save as PDF?

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

(OP)
I tried PDF - it didn't work. It looks like I may have to purchase a driver called Winline.

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

Have you also tried TIF, GIF, JPG and BMP?

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

You can open PDF w/o Viewport.  There is a free plugin from Adobe to open PDF in web browser.

RE: Anyone use a program called Viewport?

(OP)
I finally got a PDF file to work. I had to modify the INI file to include PDF and change the output file settings.  Using the Blue Angel reader, the SolidWorks drawing looks great. Thanks for everyone's help.

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