CADquest Tips & Tricks Series

Trail File Management

Trail files are a handy record of an entire working session of Pro/ENGINEER. These files should be properly managed so they can be edited and replayed if needed. Follow these simple steps.

1. Create a folder or directory to keep the trail files in.

....... C:\myfiles\trail

2. Set the config.pro option "trail_dir" to the folder you created.

....... trail_dir ....C:\myfiles\trail

The trail file folder will accumulate many trail files over time. You may want to create a small program to remove the trail files. A sample bat file for Windows NT shown here. Similar scripts can be written in Unix.

"del_trail.bat"

cd  C:\myfiles\trail
del  trail.txt.*

Steven G. Smith, CADquest, Harrisburg, PA