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Plane Plotter Wiki - helping you with a great program!

 

This Wiki is designed to help you with Bev's great Plane Plotter program.  To answer your first question - yes, you must register to access the shared data!   The Wiki is to help you, and welcomes your input.  Authors are wanted here!  See if some of the other topics further down the page help with your other questions.  If something isn't covered, please ask in the Plane Plotter Groups.io group

Want to see Plane Plotter in action? - take a look here!

 

The latest Hints and Tips from Bev (Plane Plotter author).

 

Installing Plane Plotter - FAQ

 

You can download Plane Plotter here, save it to your PC, and just double-click the .exe file you downloaded to install it.  Simple, eh?  Before your trial period expires, be sure to register the program here.

 

 

Using Plane Plotter

 

 

Some great Add-ons for Plane Plotter

 

 

Many thanks to the folk who spend their own free time to write these add-ons and then offer them free-of-charge.  One or other of these add-ons will enhance your enjoyment of the program.

 

Cscript or Wscript - that is the question!

 

Within Windows, there are two commands which can run scripts (files with the .VBS extension) such as certain of the the add-ons above.  These two commands are named cscript and wscript, but function slightly differently.  For example, one user was having problems with a script opening in wscript by default, and giving an error  "ActiveX component can't create object : 'GetObject' Code 800A01AD".  To run the script correctly he needed to type, from a command prompt:

 

 cscript  C:\Tools\PlanePlotter\PGR.vbs

 

You can switch the default between cscript and wscript as described here.

 

Routine maintenance of Plane Plotter

 

You may want to purge the log files produced when you are using Plane Plotter with a data source like an SBS-1/BaseStation.  David Taylor has written a free, unsupported (but very widely used) program named TrimTree which can do this for you.