Does anyone have a way to view Carbide files in folders? With a growing # of files, it’s hard to remember what is what anymore.
What do you use as a standard naming convention for your files ?
Sometimes text can be just as quick and more useful than a visual representation.
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I have a CNC directory on my desktop. Inside that directory I have Project_Templates. Inside that directory are my individual projects in their own directories. When I name a file I give it a descriptive name and a date. That way I can have multiple versions of the same file and know which one was done last. In the CNC directory I also have installers for previous versions of CC and CM as well as other programs I may need to resinstall in the future. Additionally I have an images folder where I can stash images I may want to use later. However SVG images I use in a project get put in their Project_Templates directory. Sometimes I just find random images I may someday use.
I have been doing this for 7 years now and have a lot of older v3, v4, v5 and v6 as well as v7 version files. I took all the v3-6 files and put them in their own directory called older_files. I also have a folder that is one_of_projects. These are there because it is likely I will never use them again and it keeps them from clutering up my current projects.
Computer resources are finite. So you need to treat your file system that way. Even with the fast terrabyte drives you can run out of space or worse cannot find what you need because of the clutter.
Just a little organization goes a long way to keep your sanity.
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I’ve requested this before and I’d love to see it in CC.
I’m also a Lightburn user - and Lightburn manages to make the design the icon within the file manager (Windows). I don’t know how to make that happen, but they do it.
It’s much better than burying the description in English in the filename. For one thing, it’s faster to identify the image in the file manager. It’s also a pain that some symbols are not valid within file names (like ’ / ', ’ * ', and ’ " ’ ), which makes it harder to describe the design.
It would be a nice feature. I believe CC already has the ability to render an image of the design, it’s just a matter of taking the time to put it in the code in a way that makes it show up in the icon.
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CC would need a “Thumbnail Preview Handler”.
Here’s an example someone made up to handle various JPEG-like image formats:
Probably the easiest way to implement something like this would be to have CC always save an image in the C2D file that is intended to be the thumbnail, then the preview handler would only have to extract that (rather than having to render it).
As usual, MSDN also has lots to say on the subject:
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You could save a screenshot of the project and save it to the same name as the project with the correct file extension. That way you would have a preview in File explorer.
A native CC thumbnail would be better except you would have to open the CC file to see it.
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I use snipping tool in Windows 11. Any two (or more) files can have the same name as long as their file extension is different. Having a different file extension is a unique name even if before the dot is the same as other files.
example.c2d
example.jpg
example.png
Each of these files seem similar but are different because of the file extension.
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It really is a bad thing that contemporary OS defaults are to hide file extensions.
Windows File Explorer
On the menubar
View → Show → Show File extensions
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