Searching For a File

[Joe Jones]

You know what happens ... you create THOUSANDS of .PCM files, all with cryptic names. Then you go back a year later to find that ONE file you need, and ...

Does anyone have a way to display a .pcm file as a GRAPHIC rather than as a name? I can scroll through photos a lot faster than trying to remember what I named that $^%&* file EIGHT YEARS AGO!

Joe

[abmetal]

You know......I've thought the same thing for years, but I'm just too dumb to figure out anything. I wish somebody had a good answer.

Allen

[Joe Jones]

I bought a 4TB external hard drive, and I am moving ALL of my PlasmaCam files, DXF files, art files, images, and so forth to that single drive. I have several computers, and it really gets frustrating trying to remember which computer contains which design. So everything is going onto ONE portable drive, and I will just save and pull files from that one central location.

[weldguy]

I doubt it will work with pcm files but for dxf the Smartview software is simple to use, cheap to buy and awesome for organizing your designs. Check them out at https://dxfviewer.us/

[Joe Jones]

I doubt it will work with pcm files but for dxf the Smartview software is simple to use, cheap to buy and awesome for organizing your designs. Check them out at https://dxfviewer.us/

Thanks. I will look at the software. I hear that there is a setting ... somewhere ... that allows Windows 10 Pcs to view .pcm files as graphics, but I haven't found it yet.

Joe

[weldguy]

[Joe Jones]

As John Derby said, it must be a setting in Windows 10. I have two identical computers with DesignEdge on them. One PC will not display the graphic icon. The other one will. Now I have to print out the settings on both of them, and find that cryptic difference!

Joe