If you want to start AutoCAD with file location information WITHOUT
affecting toolbars, etc., you can import just PART of an AutoCAD profile -
in this way, you only add the additional info you need, instead of the whole
profile.
To do this, export an AutoCAD profile as a .arg file, open it in Notepad,
and delete all the entries you DON'T want changed - leave only the entries
for file locations, etc. Save the resulting file under a new name, then add
the following to either your logon scripts or a batch file used to start
AutoCAD:
regedit /s \\file_location\new_file.arg
where file_location and new_file.arg refer to names you're using on your
systems.
We have the above in our logon scripts, which only updates the variables we
want, instead of updating everyone's complete profile everytime they start.
NOTE - this is likely not supported by Autodesk, but works very well if you
know what you're doing.
John
"Steve Magoon" wrote in message
news:70FA19B705FF6EB3D8ED2A66E0549B59@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> We know the toolbar information (were they are on the screen) is held in
the
> registry, but is there a way we could set up a profile that only has
> information about location of files so we could load it over the top of an
> existing profile but it would not set all menus and toolbars back to the
> default autocad location. The reason we ask is because we want to run a
> profile at startup with the same name as one on all machines in our
building
> and only effect the paths for specific files on the server. This will
make
> everyone the same in our office on startup but they can have toolbars
where
> they want and they will always stay there. Can anyone help.
>
> Maybe we are headed down the wrong path to change the path locations in
the
> profile.
>
> We do this with MicroStation using config files and a .upf file locally on
> the workstation, it works great but I don't know of a way to do it with
> AutoCAD 2002.
>
> Thanks
>
>
