Migrating 2007 - 2010

[greglong]

Just curious, but when you migrate 2007 set-up into 2010 are you actually dumbing down 2010 or are you be better off not migrating and building your own toolbars if that is your perferred drawing format?

[Anonymous]

Do NOT migrate, it only works part of the time and just creates issues.

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[Anonymous]

I would agree with Dean, but there are several issues you need to be aware
of.

First - and this is a big one - ACA '10 does not have toolbars or pulldown
menus at all. They totally took them out of the CUI (or CUIX now) so that
you can't even just turn them back on.

Second, there is a copy of the CUIX with menus and toolbars that was issued
by Autodesk on their site for all of about 3 days before it was pulled.
Someone with brains at Autodesk realized it was a mistake not to have the
menus and toolbars and tried to correct it. But someone else with no brains
higher up at Autodesk probably forced it to be pulled. It can still be
found elsewhere, but I forget the link. Someone may follow up and post the
file right here if they are paying attention.

Although it may help to have a CUI file clean of toolbars as you can copy
them all from your old cui into the new one.

[Anonymous]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:44:36 -0800, Joel wrote:

>Second, there is a copy of the CUIX with menus and toolbars that was issued
>by Autodesk on their site for all of about 3 days before it was pulled.
>Someone with brains at Autodesk realized it was a mistake not to have the
>menus and toolbars and tried to correct it. But someone else with no brains
>higher up at Autodesk probably forced it to be pulled. It can still be
>found elsewhere, but I forget the link. Someone may follow up and post the
>file right here if they are paying attention.

I think it got pulled because I bet it was just a quick port of the old 2009
ACA.CUI file. It did not contain any new commands or be completely regression
tested under ACA 010.

Matt
matt@stachoni.com

[Anonymous]

attached is the file with toolbars and menus, however you can load your old
cui as partials and get back the old interface. Have to do some tweaking. I
have set up 2010 to look like 2006 without any issues so far


wrote in message news:6331231@discussion.autodesk.com...
Just curious, but when you migrate 2007 set-up into 2010 are you actually
dumbing down 2010 or are you be better off not migrating and building your
own toolbars if that is your perferred drawing format?

[BOBKELLERMAN]

Many people say "if the guy wants to do it the old way, help him"
I tend to say "if it's an improvement that has gotten pretty much great acceptance, and many of us tell you to just TRY it, why not?"
I personally see folks getting used to the ribbon in 2010 (not 2009) quickly and loving it.

Besides, Lynn Allen gave it her stamp of approval -- what else could you need to know?

BOB

[Matasovsky]

"Besides, Lynn Allen gave it her stamp of approval -- what else could you need to know?"

How much they paid her for that stamp.

[Matasovsky]

I'm in the process of preparing AutoCAD 2010 for our multi-discipline office. Quick question I have is where it the Default/start-up drawing being referenced from???

I've gotten into options and re-directed what template I want my QNEW using, but having a REAL hard time figuring out the template that the shortcut is using when you double click and open AutoCAD from scratch. I've Right-Clicked > Properties the shortcut and looked at Target. This is what it has

"C:\Program Files\AutoCAD MEP 2010\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD MEP 2010\AecBase.dbx" /p "AutoCAD MEP (US Imperial)"
[ This part executes AutoCAD | ] [ Don't knwo this part ] [ Profile ]

Anyone know the code to point the shortcut to the template I want to use??

I've been looking thru OPTIONS, but don't see anything. I'm leaving open the possiblity that I'm not looking in the right place, but in 15+ years they've never messed around w/ OPTIONS and how it looks...

Tried adding some things to a few templates to see if it comes up when I open AutoCAD, but no luck so far.

Any suggestions?

[David_W_Koch]

I would think that it would use the same template as QNEW, but have never experimented to see if that is the case.

I believe you can put a /t switch in the target string and then specify a template file path/name after the switch.

The /ld switch tells AutoCAD to load the AecBase.dbx file, which is the one file that needs to be loaded to make ACA, ACA (or AMEP, AMEP), rather than just AutoCAD.