CEE Relays Ltd.

87C Whitby Road, Slough, SL1 3DR

Telephone: (01753) 576477        Fax: (01753) 825661

Website: www.ceerelays.co.uk

PTW Format Files

When installing a new version, PTW's format files (datablocks, queries, forms, symbols, etc.) are backed up, and replaced with new files. If you have customised your existing format files, then you will probably want to revert to using your old files. This is possible in one of two ways (the first method is also described in the PTW V5.0 Update Installation Notes, supplied with the V5.0 updates).

Copying the old files and deleting the new files
To find out where PTW stores the format files, click on Project>>Options>>Miscellaneous Files. This is normally C:\PTW32\LIB, but can be changed to be any directory. When PTW backs up the existing format files, they are copied into a back-up directory (normally C:\PTW32\LIB\BACKUP1).

Using Windows Explorer, or My Computer, copy the files from the back-up directory to the miscellaneous files directory. This will allow you to use all the formats that you used before, but will not allow you to use any of the new formats that have been included in the latest version.

The format files include DRAW.FMT, COMPEDIT.FMT, SYMBOLS.UGS, IMPEXP.FMT, QUERY.ARC, PTWFORMS.FRM, and Arc Flash label formats (AF*.SS_).

Importing old formats into the new PTW format files
Using PTW, it's possible to import forms and datablocks from one format file to another. Using the symbol generator, it's possible to copy and paste symbols between different symbol files.

This method takes a little longer, but allows you to use your old format files as well as the new PTW format files.

To import datablocks from another file:
Click on Run>>Datablock Format and then click on the Import.... icon.

To import forms from another file:
Click on Document>>Form Layout and then click on the Import.... icon.

To copy symbols from another file:
1. Close down PTW.
2. Open up both files using PTW's Symbol Generator.
3. Go to the symbol file that you want to copy from.
4. Right mouse click on the icon that you'd like to copy and click on Copy.
5. Go to the symbol file that you want to paste into.
6. Right mouse click on the component type.
7. Click on paste.
8. Click on the OK button.

To import queries from another file: (V5.0R2.2 or later)
Click on Run>>Query... (or click on the Query icon) and then click on the Import.... icon.