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CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: bumblebeetuna on February 16, 2019, 01:20:13 AM

Title: Custom Autocad Installations
Post by: bumblebeetuna on February 16, 2019, 01:20:13 AM

Hi everyone. 

We would like to mimic the way autocad is setup from certain computers to others.  If anyone has experience with this can you offer some input?

Could we just copy the files in the Autodesk main program directory to another computer and would it work okay? The computers are different.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Custom Autocad Installations
Post by: BIGAL on February 17, 2019, 05:22:44 PM

There are a number of methods, we use a lisp that has all the paths, printers and loads correct menus and toolbars. Just copy files may  not work. Our files are held on a server not local. You may want to look at Config, Profiles and make an ARG file which you can import on another computer.

Title: Re: Custom Autocad Installations
Post by: mjfarrell on February 18, 2019, 09:13:21 AM

User Profiles as suggested, or cloning a virtual machine...

Title: Re: Custom Autocad Installations
Post by: ChrisCarlson on February 18, 2019, 09:29:02 AM

Network hosting of the CUIx and lisp routines is highly beneficial. This allows all users to be on the same settings and basic setup.

One tremendous downside....when the network is down and if AutoCAD is opened or a drawing is opened it will unload all of the customizations. A sure fire method would be to have a network hosted setup with a routine that parses for updated files and then locally copies them.

Title: Re: Custom Autocad Installations
Post by: dgorsman on February 18, 2019, 02:05:34 PM

IMHO, if the network is down you have bigger problems.

Another benefit from network located files is that it provides some protection against the acad.lsp/vlx type viruses (provided the location is read-only).