AutoCAD 2018 Design Center Home Location change via Registry or AutoLisp (anything but the UI...)

EATREVITPOOPCAD — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:49:57 GMT

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-Variable-to-change-the-default-HOME-location-for-Design-Center-in-AutoCAD.html

Shows how to change this value via the registry for AutoCAD 2023 and it works great, however, that registry location is missing for AutoCAD 2018. I found similar locations for AutoCAD 2018 just by digging around the registry, however, they change back to whatever settings were set by the UI previously when firing up CAD... Any ideas?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AppDataLow\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.2\CoreUser\0FC61B838D5E0F6B\AutodeskApps\AcadDC\History\DesignCenter\Last State\Set as Home

works for AutoCAD 2023.

the closest thing I found (looks identical actually) for AutoCAD 2018 is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R22.0\ACAD-1001:409\AutodeskApps\AcadDC\History\DesignCenter\Last State\Set as Home

but it doesn't work. Any ideas as to how I can change it without right clicking & set as home?

Re: AutoCAD 2018 Design Center Home Location change via Registry or AutoLisp (anything but the UI...)

pendean — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:41:23 GMT

Lots of tips to try in a similar post here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/specifying-default-folder-for-designcenter/td-p/6925438

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