Workspace combination

[Anonymous]

Hey is it possible to take a defined workspace in the enterprise CUI file and combine it with a user defined workspace? Basically I want the user to take our defined standard workspace (located in the enterprise CUI file) and add his/her syntax without having them create a whole new workspace. Okay… What I am truly looking for is to have the user workspace have only the content he/she needs and it references the associated enterprise workspace.

I tried the copy method, by copying the workspace in the enterprise CUI file and pasting it in the user workspace. I was able to customize it, but since I left the name of the workspace the same as it is in the enterprise file, AutoCad does not see it as another workspace. However I can rename the copied workspace in the user area and it works, but if there are updates to the enterprise workspace, the user has to do some back peddling to get the updates into their workspace.

Anybody have any ideas on this? Documentation that I have and the AutoCad help file do not indicate any solution for this. Maybe it is not possible, but any help would be appreciated…

Regards

Mark L.

[Anonymous]

I tried to do something like this in the past. Basically I created
workspaces inside of the partial cui files, yet they were not available in
the cad session. So my experience was that this was not a possibility, but
this was an earlier release of acad, possibly '06. Hopefully someone else
has better news for you!

kemp

Markl <> wrote in news:5815341@discussion.autodesk.com:

> Maybe it is not possible, but any help would be appreciated

[Anonymous]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:13:05 +0000, Markl <> wrote:

>Hey is it possible to take a defined workspace in the enterprise CUI file and combine it with a user defined workspace? Basically I want the user to take our defined standard workspace (located in the enterprise CUI file) and add his/her syntax without having them create a whole new workspace. Okay… What I am truly looking for is to have the user workspace have only the content he/she needs and it references the associated enterprise workspace.

Sure. Create the Workspace in the Enterprise CUI. Make sure each user has their
own personal CUI as the Main CUI. Have each user load up the Enterprise
Workspace, and simply save it under a different name. Because of the CUI
architecture, it will get written to the User's Main CUI.

>if there are updates to the enterprise workspace, the user has to do some back peddling to get the updates into their workspace.

You cannot have an Enteprise CUI and a User CUI in effect at the same time. It's
either one or the other, so simply provide a template Enteprise CUI that people
can use to create their own. Changes to the Enterprise Workspace will mean that
people will have to restore that CUI and resave a new copy of it to their own
(losing any workspace changes they have made).

Remember that a Workspace is not the same as the CUI; you can edit the
Enterprise menus, toolbars, etc at will, and they will be available to all
users immediately. All a Workspace does is modify what menus/palettes/toolbars
are visible at one time. The toughest thing in a Workspace is to manage your
pulldown menu order (not the contents of the menus themselves). If you solidify
your pulldown menu order at the start, there's really no reason to worry about
distributing new Workspaces.

Matt
mstachoni@verizon.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com