How To Find And Delete The Ironcad.tbc File

[Chris Lohman]

 

If you are experiencing wacky or unexplainable behavior in IronCAD, deleting

the "ironcad.tbc" file may resolve those problems.  When you delete the

.tbc file though; all of your toolbar customizations will be reset to their

defaults.  The .tbc file will be automatically recreated then next time you

exit IronCAD.

 

How to delete the ironcad.tbc file.

 

The .tbc file is under a folder that the Microsoft OS hides, so first you

must turn on hidden folders.

1. Launch Windows Explorer or "My Computer"
2. Pull down the "Tools" menu and choose "Folder Options"
3. Click on the "View" tab
4. Check the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" option
5. Click on [ok]

 

You should now be able to find the file.  Before proceeding, insure

that IronCAD is not running.

1. In Windows Explorer or "My Computer", navigate to the following
   path.
    
   %userprofile%
   \Application Data\ironcad\ironcad\customization\
    
   The
   %userprofile%
   part can change depending on what your
   operating system is.  I will list the path's for the 3 OS's that
   are currently supported by IronCAD
    
    

   1. Windows XP: c:\Documents and Settings\
      username

   2. Windows 2000: (This could be the same as Windows XP or it could
      be at)  c:\windows\profile\
      username\

   3. Windows NT 4.0 SP6a:
      c:\windows\profile\
      username
      \
       
       
       
      Note: 
      username
      means that this folder name will
      (usually) match the name that you login with.
       
      Note:  It is possible that your userprofile is in a location
      that I could never possibly predict.  The above are the default
      locations; but a profile can be placed anywhere.  So if the
      above doesn't find it, then try step 4 below.
       
       

   4. There's one other way to find your user profile.  I can't
      remember if this works in NT 4 or not but it -does- work in 2000 and
      XP.  Right click on the start menu (not left click like you
      normally do) and choose "Explore" (NOT, explore all users). 
      Windows explorer will launch IN your user profile, with the "start
      menu" folder highlited.  If you look up above the start menu
      folder, you should see the "Application Data" folder (and above the
      Application Data folder you should find the
      username
      folder
      that you are working under)
       
       

2. Under customization, you will find the ironcad.tbc file: 
   Delete it, then launch IronCAD and see if the problem goes away.

[Rick Dorrington]

Chris,

 

Seeing as this is at least the 3rd or 4th time I have seen this subject posted how about this as an enhancement:

 

Place a big button in the toolbar that says:

 

" Fix Wacky or Unexplained Behaviour"

 

which automatically deletes the .tbc file for the user, shuts down and restarts IronCad.

 

Rick

[Chris Lohman]

Ok, stop trying to apply logic to things.