Problems with Pro/E Wildfire Driver

[Wayne]

The latest driver (3.4.2) installs a protk.dat that you are to copy into the text directory of your Wildfire installation. There are several problems with the installation:
1. The path listed for the .dll file in the protk.dat is:

$ProgramFiles\3Dconnexion\3DxProENGINEER\x86e_win64\obj\3dxProe.dll

but the file resides at:

C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware\3DxProENGINEER64\x86e_win64\obj\3dxProe.dll

Once the path is corrected, the driver works fine in Wildfire 3 M070 64-bit

2. Protk.dat does not work in Wildfire 3 M070 32-bit. Can you recompile the toolkit app so it will run in 32-bit mode?

3. protk.dat does not work in Wildfire 2. If you do not load the toolkit app, you can use rotate and pan functionality in Wildfire 2, but once Wildfire 2 is launched, 3DxWare panel will not launch. Also, pushing any of the buttons can cause Wildfire 2 to exit. I know this has been discussed previously. I am just listing it for reference.

HP xw9300
Windows XP 64 bit OS
AMD Opteron 252 2.59 GHz
4 GB RAM
Wildfire 2 M200 32-bit & 64-bit
Wildfire 3 M070 32-bit & 64-bit

[mbonk]

The latest driver (3.4.2) installs a protk.dat that you are to copy into the text directory of your Wildfire installation.

Actually, the installer should either create a protk.dat file in the text directory, or if the installer finds one- this is not necessarily in the text directory - add the startup entries to it.

The protk.dat file in the 3DxProengineer directory is a last resort and as the readme states "... may need editing", but I agree the installer should be able to put the correct path in it.

2. Protk.dat does not work in Wildfire 3 M070 32-bit. Can you recompile the toolkit app so it will run in 32-bit mode?

The 32bit plug-in can be found under C:\Program Files (x86)\3Dconnexion\...

Markus

[Wayne]

Markus,

I already had a protk.dat and it didn't append it, but I do have several different versions of Wildfire on the machine, so maybe it didn't know where to put it. If it did append it, would it have put in the wrong path anyway?

Thanks for pointing me to the location of the 32-bit plug-in. I will give that a shot. Is this in the documentation?

[Wayne]

The 32bit plug-in can be found under C:\Program Files (x86)\3Dconnexion\...

Markus

By the way, the 32-bit protk.dat also has the wrong path.

[mbonk]

If it did append it, would it have put in the wrong path anyway?

No

Thanks for pointing me to the location of the 32-bit plug-in. I will give that a shot. Is this in the documentation?

Do you mean the windows documentation?

Markus