AutoCAD Silent Repair

[Anonymous]

I am dealing with an issue in my company where DWG TrueView has been installed prior to an AutoCAD installation.  When TrueView is uninstalled the file associations do not default to AutoCAD.  When a .dwg file is opened it simply flags an error as the system is looking for TrueView.  In the registry there does not show to be any program occupying the *.dwg extention.  I have written a batch file to silently remove TrueView but would like to add a silent repair of AutoCAD LT to this as this redefines the associations so AutoCAD will open these files.  I would then deply this through BigFix to the affected clients.

Does anyone have any ideas?  Thank you ahead of time for any help.

[Anonymous]

From Window Explorer (My Computer, NOT Internet Explorer) right-click a .dwg and choose Open With<< Choose Default Program... you may need to select More Options and browse to your ACAD.EXE.

I hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

I appreciate your response but I am trying to create a batch file that does this reassociation.  As I will be deploying this fix to 60-80 PC's.  A repair of AutoCAD rematches these associations and that is why I wanted the silent repair install.

[Anonymous]

Some kind of mass RegEdit by the IT-types?

[Anonymous]

Yes I am one of those IT types.

[Anonymous]

Did you know that, if you would have left True View installed;

1. You'd have had the ability to convert .dwg versions (even to newer ones that you may be running) outside of AutoCAD.
2. You'd be able to open native .dwg's in Design Review for the creation of digital markups that can be accountably tracked and used directly as underlays in AutoCAD and Inventor drawings (and perhaps other Autodesk products)?

Curiously, was True View un-installed before or after AutoCAD was installed?  This might be a good one to open a support ticket for... are you a Subscription customer?

Good Luck

[Anonymous]

I do not handle my companies licensing so I am not 100% on how our volume license works.  I do know that TrueView is installed first (as part of a SCCM image), AutoCAD is then installed (either via SCCM or manual install), TrueView is removed, files will not be defaulted to AutoCAD after TrueView removal.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I wrote a batch file removing DWG TrueView and setting the .dwg filetype for AutoCAD in the registry:

regedit /s "G:\COMMON\bblubaum\AutoCADNew.reg"

This fixed the issue.