Anyone use a program called Viewport?

[dbtruckers]

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.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

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

 

[TheTick]

Sounds pretty stoneage. Why not PDF?

 

[dbtruckers]

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

 

[EEnd]

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

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

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

 

[dbtruckers]

Here it is:

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

????

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

 

[dbtruckers]

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

 

[takedownca]

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?

 

[dbtruckers]

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

 

[dogarila]

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

 

[TheTick]

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

 

[dbtruckers]

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.