CrossManager  V2025.4
CrossManager Overview

Contextual Menu (right button of mouse)

The mouse to be used for CrossManager needs two buttons at least, but profits of an eventual third one or of a wheel. This menu is depending of the context in which it is used, before or after the translation.
Kinds of actions
The mouse can be used in two ways, either by clicking, or by dragging/dropping.

  • "Click" (press and release immediately a button without moving)
    • Clicks left are dedicated to choice of actions and highlighting
    • Clicks right is dedicated to contextual menu
  • "Drag & Drop" (press a button and move the mouse, without releasing the button).
    Drags are dedicated to addition of files in the list that fulfill the Input Format type.
  • "Double Click" has no effect on the list before conversion. On the opposite, after conversion, it is the way to open the log file in notepad editor.
    Here is the appearing menu when using "Right Click" :

This menu lets appear functions available with different buttons described below.

The Menus Add Directory and Add Directory (recursive) as well as Load a list of files to be converted are not available in the basic version.

Input Format

when you click the black arrow of the combobox called "Select an input format" , here is the list of CAD format supported as input by CrossManager :

A filter will limit the selection of files to the selected format with the "Add Files" button.

Output Format

When you click the black arrow of the combobox called "Select an output format" , here is the list of CAD format supported as output by CrossManager that is displayed in the combobox :

Output Folder (Optional)

If the checkbox called "Write into input folder" , is checked the output file generated by CrossManager will be created inside the input folder. If you want to choose your output directory, unchek this checkbox, and click on the "..." button in the upper right corner to select this folder.

File Selection and List Creation

When you click on the "Add Files" button, the following window appears and let you select the database to convert with a list restricted to the chosen format of input files: (This list is limited to the number of 100 files to be converted for the basic version)

The "Drag and Drop" feature is also available to fill the list of input files to convert. The "Drop" of the file will be possible only if the selected file fulfill the input format chosen. This applies as well to Folders: All the files from this folder that fulfill the input format are added to the list.

List Manipulation before Conversion

Once your list is created, you can edit this list with the contextual menu as shown in the following window :

The "Run conversion" menu as well as the "Run conversion" Button starts the converter with each file of the list created above one after the other.

The "Remove from the list" menu allows suppressing a set of selected files from the list. Furthermore file or Files can be removed from the list by highlighting the File(s) and pressing the "Del" key.

The "Open containing folder" opens the folder in which is located the file, inside the File Explorer.

The "Open output folder" opens the folder in which output files are generated, inside the File Explorer.

The "Add files" menu as well as the "Add files" Button opens the File browser to select a new file for the list.

The "Empty List" menu as well as "Empty List" button clears the list of files to convert.

The "Options" menu as well as the "Options" Button opens the Options Window to allow you to change the Language of the interface.

The "Quit" menu as well as the "Quit" Button stops the execution of CrossManager.

List Manipulation after Conversion

After conversion has ended, you can use the contextual menu as shown below :

The menu "Run conversion" allows running again converter on the files of the list.

The menu "Save results report" specific at this context allows to record the content of this window in an excel file (CSV Format) with all the File names, the File size and the status of conversion.

The Menu "Open containing folder" allows opening with Windows explorator the folder in which input file is present.

The menu "Open output folder" allows opening with Windows explorator the folder in which output file is present.

The Menu "Empty list" specific to that context, as well as button, empties the spooler of files to convert.

The menu "Options" as well as button, allows opening Option window.

The menu "Quit" as well as button, ends the execution of the converter.

CrossManager Advanced Option

  • CrossManager Advanced needs an additional licence.
  • Some Additional options are avalable in the contextual menu (right-click in the main window) :
    • "Add Folder" allows to import all files (in the chosen input format) from a selected folder.
    • "Add Folder (Recursive)" allows to import all files (in the chosen input format) from a selected folder and its sub-folders recursively.
    • "Load a list of files to be converted" allows to recall a previously saved list of files to be converted.
    • "Save the list of files to be converted" allows to store the list of files to be converted for future recall.

  • CrossManager Advanced removes the limitation in the number of files that can be added to the list (the regular version of CrossManager is limited to 100 at a time).


  • CrossManager Advanced is also available as a command line executable for integration in any file management process.
    Download the CrossManager command line executable from your account: https://www.datakit.com