I have a client who is complaining that after having installed a new setup on Windows 10 and installed both V5 and V6 they cannot make any file associations work automatically (double click) with V5 - specifically STEP, DWG, DXF and STL. I tried a few experiments here on my Win 8 machine and I can’t either with .stp - and it doesn’t even show up in my Windows file associations.
Paradoxically, my .dwg association on this machine is already with V5 (if I double click) - who knows why? But not the .dxf, that opens with V6. In file associations, I have this…
Which corresponds to the reality, However, trying to change either one in the Windows file association panel doesn’t work. Nor via right on a desktop icon and Properties or via Open with…
I know the file association stuff with Rhino has been messed up since a long time, this was already a problem when V5 replaced V4. I was trying to find the registry hack to force the file association so I could give the procedure to the client, but it wasn’t obvious to me where it was.
Hi Charles - perhaps @brian has another trick up his sleeve for this one.
A quick Google tells me that it is not possible to change this through the Windows UI and multiple sites refer to a utility by Nirsoft…
-wim
It appears that we could make this even better by not only registering “capabilities” with Windows, but also registering a zillion different file types with Windows.
Right now, the installer registers “Rhino6.Document” as “Rhino 3D Model”. Because we’re registering Rhino as being capable of opening “.dwg” as “Rhino6.Document” they all get the same icon.
We could add icons to Rhino for each file type, and also register each file type as “Rhino7.Document.DWG” with the description “DWG (Rhino 7)” or something. Would that be clearer?
Sounds very good!
While I think a single other icon for all the diffferent types could be sufficient.
Something like a left or down arrow overlay or so.
The change in the file types handling is very welcome.
Thanks for it.
That bug is closed but I still have the same issue on V8 at least with sketchup files. They alwaye open in V6, no matter what I do.
Please is there any workaround to this problem?
I know that should work but it does not. I did that several times but the association is not created. BTW I have to find the (v8) rhino.exe using the file chooser dialog as it is not present in the list for some file types. DWG thankfully works (it is associated with v8)
