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    AutoCAD 2013/2014 DWG Format

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    Loutro
    Posts: 4
    Registered: ‎02-11-2012

    How to preserve support files when reinstalling on a different machine?

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    01-16-2013 08:30 PM

    I am running AutoCAD 2013 on Windows 7 on a virtual machine (Fusion) on my mac (Macbook Pro (late 2008), OS 10.6.8, 2.53 GHz, 8GB Ram.  

     

    I want to delete Fusion from my machine and use Bootcamp to run AutoCAD instead.  Before I delete my virtual Windows machine and uninstall Fusion, I want to make sure that I have a copy of all supporting files for AutoCAD so that when I reinstall it in Bootcamp, I can restore all present functionality.

     

    I am not very knowledgeable about AutoCAD or PCs in general, so I don't know what I don't know.  In other words, I know that there are files that AutoCAD uses that I have created knowlingly or not that are important to be reinstalled so that the program continues to work how I am used to, but I don't know what all these files are, or where they are stored. The most obvious example are .ctb files that I have created over the past several years that have moved automatically with each upgrade.  There are surely other aspects of customization that exist in files kept somewhere, that AutoCAD references, but again, I don't know where all such files are kept.

     

    Could someone give me the best method for gathering all such files so that I can copy them to a thumbdrive and then reinstall in Bootcamp, once I've re-installed AutoCAD?

     

    Any help is much appreciated!

     

    Loutro

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    imadhabash
    Posts: 116
    Registered: ‎08-06-2008

    Re: How to preserve support files when reinstalling on a different machine?

    01-16-2013 10:19 PM in reply to: Loutro

    Hi,

     

    Try Export AutoCAD 2013 Setting from Migrate Custom Settings.

    to reache there go Window start > All Programs > Autodesk > AutoCAD2013

     

    Regards, 

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