Topic: Acad Install ini

[ronjonp]

Why doesn't this line work in my acadinst.ini file?

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[<PROFILE>General]
PrinterConfigDir=S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plotters\
PrinterStyleSheetDir=S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plot Styles

I've tried...

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[<PROFILE>General]
PrinterConfigDir=<string>S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plotters\
PrinterStyleSheetDir=<string>S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plot Styles

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[<PROFILE>General]
PrinterConfigDir="S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plotters\"
PrinterStyleSheetDir="S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plot Styles"

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[<PROFILE>General]
PrinterConfigDir=<string>"S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plotters\"
PrinterStyleSheetDir=<string>"S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plot Styles"

but none work??

[hendie]

your second version there looks as though it should work. Are you setting anything else through the Profiles section ? do those settings take effect ?

[<PROFILE>General]
would operate on values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\ [Version]\[Product]\Profiles\[Profile]\General

is everything else you are setting in the ini file taking effect ? (just trying to ascertain that the acadinst.ini is actually being run ok)

do you have a line similar to:

Filename: {app}\AcadInst.exe; Description: Configure AutoCAD; Parameters: {app}; Flags: waituntilidle

near the end if your iss file ?

[ronjonp]

Hendie,

The acadinst.exe is running fine. So is the only profile that is modified, has to be created by the .ini file? This will not change existing profiles? I was trying to use this install as a means of updating every profile.

Thanks,

Ron

[hendie]

Do you have anything under the [NewProfile] section ?
I seem to remember having some problem when I tried to modify the profiles and it created a new one but I couldn't set it current ~ but that was when I was just starting with the programme so it was most likely my fault.
if you do have something in the [newprofile] section, you could try commenting it out and see if that makes any difference. Alternatively, if you've downloaded the other prog I mentioned, there's a section in it where you can modify the registry ~ you could try that.

I'll have a play here and see if I can get it to work.

[hendie]

I've had a look and everything you've done seems okay ~ the second version should work from what I can see.
all I can suggest is woeful... are you passing it a valid path ~ I noticed there was no "program files" in there

sorry for such an insipid suggestion.... I'll keep playing

[Mark]

from what I read your version;

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[<PROFILE>General]
PrinterConfigDir=<string>S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plotters\
PrinterStyleSheetDir=<string>S:\AutoCAD 2002\Plot Styles

should work.

[Mark]

Just did a test on one of mine and the following worked for the profile I selected in acadinst.

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[<PROFILE>General]
PlotToFilePath=<STRING>C:\Temp


notice the uppercase STRING that may have something to do with it.

[ronjonp]

notice the uppercase STRING that may have something to do with it.

BINGO!!!!  Thanks Mark. That was driving me insane!

Ron

[ronjonp]

I'm now having trouble with my pulldown menu not loading everytime? When I initially install, everything works great. Then I close out of AutoCAD, reopen, and my pulldown menu is not loaded?? Any suggestions?

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in ini:

[MENU]

MenuGroups=AQUA:AQUA:20:50

in mns:

***MENUGROUP=AQUA

***POP20
**AQUA

Thanks,

Ron

[ronjonp]

Whenever I open AutoCAD 2004, my menu loads and the mnc is recompiled. Then I open 2002 and the menu will not load. Should I not be sharing the same .mns file between versions of acad? How can I get around this?

[ronjonp]

No takers?

[cadwerx]

You should definitely not be using the same .mns file for 2004 as 2002.

[ronjonp]

So should I have different mns files for 2002, 2004, and 2005? If so, how do I successfully load them into the correct version of acad in one install package? Right now I'm just using the MENU portion of the ini file to load.

[Anonymous]

No just one for pre-2004 and one for 2004 and later versions.

BTW, this is precisely why the Uninstall= key was included in the [MENU] section of AcadInstall (in case you have pre-existing menus that you need to now version for AutoCAD).

[cadwerx]

That was me, I thought I was logged in

[ronjonp]

Hey Byron (or any one else),

How do I get my installer to recognize a version already installed and automatically uninstall it?

Thanks,

Ron