.plt and Plt Import For Solidworks Software for Windows

UniView
$29 - Binary Soft, Inc.

UniView is a powerful image viewer,converter and manipulation tool for Winodws 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. It support 50+ popular image formats and it intergates many functions to let you manipulate the image files easily and quickly.
Main features:
1.Support to view and convert between 50+ most popular image formats, including raster, vector and animated images: *.AFI;*.ANI;*.AVI;*.BMP;*.BW;*.CEL;*.CIF;*.CUR;*.CUT;*.DCX;*.DIB;*.DXF;*.EMF;*.EPS;*.GIF(Including animated GIF);*.HG;*.HGL;*.HPG;*.ICO;*.IMG;*.JFIF;*.JPE;*.JPEG;*.JPG;*.MAC;*.PBM;*.PCC;*.PCD;*.PCX;*.PDD;*.PGM;*.PIC;*.PLO;*.PLT;*.PNG;*.PPM;*.PSD;*.PSP;*.PTF;*.RGB;*.RGBA;*.RLA;*.RLE;*.RPF;*.SCR;*.SGI;*.SLD;*.TGA;*.TIF;*.TIFF(Including Multipaged TIFF);*.UFO;*.VST;*.WBMP;*.WMF.
2.Support full play control of the animated images(including animated GIF, AVI files and ANI images) just like the Windows Media Player, Moreover, you can grab frames in the animated images and save them as other formats.
3.Provide encryption functions which allow you to encrypt your private image collections and view them only when the correct passwords are entered.
4.Support to convert and rename image files from one format to another in batch. You can specify different convert and rename rules as you like, and UniView will do everything automatically for you in one minute.
5.Provide 140+ different special effects and three different sequencing features in slide show so that you can view a sequence of images automatically and please both the eye and the mind.
6.Scroll, manual and auto zoom, rotate, thumbnail and full-screen mode features allow you to view your images the way you want.
7.Support to set the image for the desktop wallpaper as centered, tiled and stretched. You can also restore the old wallpaper.
8.Support to associate and deassociate file with a special kinds of types, undo feature is also supported.
9. Integrate HTML Album Generator to create attractive Photo Albums that can be easily published on the Internet.

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PLT Export for SolidWorks
$195 - SYCODE

PLT Export for SolidWorks is a HPGL Plot PLT file export add-in for SolidWorks®. This add-in gives SolidWorks the ability to export geometric data from a SolidWorks drawing document to a HPGL PLT file.

PLT Export for SolidWorks reads curve data from a SolidWorks drawing document and converts it into corresponding pen movements in a HPGL Plot file.

PLT Export for SolidWorks is very easy to use. Once installed, it automatically loads itself into SolidWorks and adds a new submenu called "PLTExport" to the SolidWorks menu.

The 'PLTExport' menu consists of the following commands:
# Export - Export objects to a PLT file
# Help - Display the PLT Export for SolidWorks help file
# Register - Register your copy of PLT Export for SolidWorks
# About - Display the PLT Export for SolidWorks About box

PLT Export for SolidWorks comes with detailed documentation for each command as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time.


The PLT File Format

HPGL is the Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language designed for specifying 2D graphical information for the HP range of plotters. It was not intended as an interchange format but some software suppliers use it as such. HPGL is a command set embedded in the ROM of pen plotters to help reduce the work required by applications programmers to create plotted output. HPGL uses two-letter mnemonics as instructions for drawing lines, circles, text, and simple symbols. HPGL is the primary printer control language used by Hewlett-Packard plotters. It later became a standard for almost all plotters.

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CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework
$3000 - CADSoftTools

CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework is a small API for AutoCAD DWG manipulation and DXF file formats in C#, VB.NET and other .NET programming environments.

CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework allows:
- Viewing of AutoCAD(tm) DWG/DXF, Windows Metafiles WMF/EMF and a set of raster images (*.bmp,*.jpg, *.jpeg,*.tiff, *.gif);
- Viewing HPGL (PLT, HGL, SPL,...), SVG and CGM formats
- Converting DWG and DXF to BMP format;
- 2D rotation, printing and zooming for raster images;
- 3D rotation, printing and zooming, switching on/off for layers, selection of layouts, setting of visibility for entities, using SHX fonts for DWG and DXF file format.

Here are some key features of "CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework":

- Supported CAD formats: *.dwg and *.dxf
- Supported raster formats: *.bmp,*.jpg, *.jpeg,*.tiff, *.gif and *.ico
- CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework provides access to extensive properties of each CAD entity.
- Full control of every layer and any element of it
- Supporting three-dimensional coordinates
- High speed for reading all formats
- CAD Import .NET for Compact Framework implements quick and exact reading of DXF and DWG files and manipulating them using Windows GDI+ interface.
- DWG and DXF Layouts
- 3D support including nested extrusions
- Easy and smart scaling and image dragging
- Compatible with AutoDesk DXF Release 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 2000, 2002, 2004/2005/2006
- Compatible with AutoDesk DWG Release 12, 13, 14, 2000, 2002, 2004/2005/2006;
- Fully compatible with C#, VB.NET and other .NET programming environments
- UNICODE support allows viewing Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other hieroglyphs
- DXF Autocad Table support
- DWG and DXF reference images support

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2D / 3D CAD Import .NET: DWG, DXF, PLT
$49 - CADSoftTools

CAD Import .NET is an easy-to-use API for reading AutoCAD DWG / DXF, PLT, HPGL and CGM in C#, VB.NET, J# and Delphi .NET applications. DWG 2007/2008 is supported. It is programmed completely in C# and supports the following entities:

3dFace
Arc
Attdef
Block
BlockRecord
Circle
Dimension
Ellipse
Hatch
Insert
Layer
Layout
Line
LWPolyline
MText
TableItem
Polyline
Solid
Style
Table
Text
Viewport
and more..

And properties:

Extrusion
LineType
Color
3D rotation
and more..

The package consists of demos for C#, VB.NET, J#, along with help and license information. The Viewer demo shows how to use the product for viewing DXF/DWG, zooming and exporting to BMP and JPEG, etc.

The Import demo explains access to the extensive properties of each CAD entity which is supported by CAD Import .NET.

The program supports the following raster format extensions: *.bmp, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.tiff, *.gif and *.ico.

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SI Lookup
$0 - WinCatalog.com

If you have a domain name, you can use one of the numerous Whois tools to determine its owner. Whois provides complete information about the owner of any domain name, up to the level of mailing addresses and telephone numbers. But what if you don?t have a domain name? What if all you have is a mere IP address? Or what if you don?t need information about the domain name, but are much more interested in who owns the Web server where it?s hosted?

Quite often it is still possible to determine the owner, or, rather, the assignee, of an IP address. IP addresses in North America are assigned by ARIN, an independent, nonprofit corporation that provides IP registration. It is possible to unveil details about the organization that uses a particular IP address, or, to be precise, a block of IP addresses.

There are no tools that come with Windows which can look up information about an IP address. Instead, you can visit ARIN database, learn about its query syntax, and fire up search on an IP address. If the address does not belong to the North American block, you will quite often see only the basic information specifying the country and organization responsible for assigning IP addresses there. To discover owner information of your original IP address, you then will have to visit a whois server of that organization and repeat the whole process.

While there?s nothing wrong in doing all these queries, it takes an awful lot of time. We at Soft Institute wrapped the same thing into a convenient package. SI Lookup queries the right server right automatically, and returns clearly legible, well formatted output. It displays all the vital information and allows you to query more than one IP address by simply selecting it from a combo box. Thanks to its user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Lookup is much more convenient to use than the online tools that Unix-age non-profit organizations provide on the Web.

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SI ColorPicker
$0 - Pingram Software

Pick pixel colors as HTML, HEX or RGB values.

Are you designing a Web page, and need to match borders or background color against a picture? Sure you can open that picture in a graphic editor, pick a color and convert it to the format accepted by HTML standard. But why bother? Let SI ColorPicker do it for you in just one motion! Drag the eyedropper tool onto a picture - or other Web page, if that matters, - and SI ColorPicker will display the exact value of that pixel in HTML format. It takes just another click to place that string to a Windows clipboard, ready to be pasted into your Web page.

Are you a software developer programming an application that has to look in line with other products? Pick any part of any window on your desktop, and you'll see if that color is a WinAPI system constant beginning with COLOR_, or some arbitrary color chosen by the developer of that software. In any case, you're just one mouse click away from pasting a necessary color value from Windows clipboard!

Get RGB color values in decimal or HEX formats, as system color constants or as HTML values with a single free tool. You can configure SI ColorPicker to sit silently in the system tray near the clock when it is closed or minimized, ready to be accessed with a single click. If you need SI ColorPicker to appear on top of other windows, there?s that option, too! Should you need to run it fast, there's a Windows shortcut to launch it quick: press Win+R and type "sicolor", followed by ENTER.

SI ColorPicker is small, light and free. No software or Web developer or designer should live without a color picker!

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