Altium Designer 18 (X2.EXE) - 3DxWare profile?

[mhoopes]

Altium's latest beta version of Altium Designer 18 (18.0.4) changed the file name of their executable to X2.EXE.
3DxWare doesn't seem to recognize it as Altium Designer, so I'm losing some of the 3DxWare functions for my SpaceMouse Pro that worked when AD was DXP.EXE.

Fit: With X2.EXE, it doesn't work at all.
QuickZoom: With X2.EXE, it offers mouse wheel increments (up/down 5x/25x), which don't work for zooming unless you're holding down the Ctrl key.

I made some macros as work-arounds for the time being.

I looked at my two profiles (AltiumDesigner.xml, X2.EXE.xml), and I'm not sure how to adapt my old profile for use with X2.EXE. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike

[UtaSH]

Hi mhoopes,

in the AltiumDesigner.xml replace line 7

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<ExecutableName>DXP.EXE</ExecutableName></Signature>

with this one:

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<ExecutableName>X2.EXE</ExecutableName>

and remove the file X2.EXE.xml

[mhoopes]

UtaSH - thanks much! One issue: I need to keep both versions of the executable on my PC (DXP.EXE and X2.EXE). I sense that this will prevent 3DxWare from detecting DXP.EXE. If so, is there anything I can do about that?

[UtaSH]

In the XML from the executable that you want to be ignored add this:

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<CfgProperties>
	...
		<Access>
			<Ignore>true</Ignore>
		</Access>
</CfgProperties>

[mhoopes]

Uta- thanks much. I don’t want to ignore DXP. I need to be able to use both applications concurrently, since I am beta-testing.

[mhoopes]

I finally found out how to get 3DxWare to recognize X2.EXE. It ends up that 3DConnexion added the capability last year to recognize multiple executables in a single profile. It works.
http://www.3dconnexion.jp/forum/viewtop ... 469#p47987

1. Rename or delete X2.EXE (so that it doesn't get used).
2. Add the following (underlined) line to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg\AltiumDesigner.xml in a text editor:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><AppCfg Default="false" xmlns="" CfgFormatVersion="1.2" ThisFileVersion="1.2.0">
<AppInfo>
<Signature>
<Name>STR_ALTIUMDESIGNER</Name>
<Transport>S80</Transport>
<ExecutableName>DXP.EXE</ExecutableName>
<ExecutableName>X2.EXE</ExecutableName>
</Signature>
<Options/>
</AppInfo>

3. Stop the 3DxWare driver.
4. Re-start the driver.

[mhoopes]

Correction to my post above: Rename or delete X2.EXE.xml. Don't rename or delete your executable.