While setting up my deployments of P&ID and Plant 3D, I noticed that there is no option in either of them to install a vanilla profile. Do I need to install AutoCAD as a separate application, or can I use either of these as the source for my vanilla profile?
There should be an option in the deployment to install AutoCAD as a separate product. With 2014, however AutoCAD and Plant run off the same base files, but plant load additional dlls from a subfolder.Effectively, though they are separate products so you won't need a profile for vanilla AutoCAD within plant.
I expected there to be an option for the vanilla profile in the deployment, but it is not there. I then created a new desktop icon with a command-line switch of "/product ACAD", but that did not work as I'd hoped, since it still loads all the Plant customization and DLLs.
If I just installed the Plant 3D application, and could figure out a way to use the /product switch, I'd like to set up profiles for both AutoCAD and P&ID without doing additional installations.
Sorry, I was thinking suite.
I was able to use /Product ACAD on a shortcut. That launched AutoCAD by itself. It may not do all lower case for the /Product switch. Or it might be a suite thing, I guess.
Does the shortcut for Plant have an additional \ld argument, as well as a \p (rofile) argument?
No, it only has the '/product PLNT3D' and '/language "en-US"' switches. Once I am done customizing it, there will be '/p' switches, but out of the box, none.
After a fresh install with Plant 3D only, there does not seem to be a way to get the command line switches to start Plant 3D as AutoCAD or P&ID. It looks like we'll have to install those applications separately, which seems a real waste of drive space. Does anyone else have some input on loading Vanilla AutoCAD or P&ID sessions with just a Plant 3D install?
Did you choose to install AutoCAD & Plant in the installation? Beginning in 2014, Plant installs to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2014\PLNT3D, so additional drive space is not used.