Migration Tool

[Anonymous]

I just received Arch. 2008 and I couldn't find a migration tool. Did anyone else have that problem? Or did I just miss and recustomize it on my own without having to?

Sean

[Anonymous]

Unless you just jumped from ADT2, there haven't been "migration tools"
in many versions now, just the installer that tries to move content
from your old setup to the new. Are you missing something specific?

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Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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[Anonymous]

Just bought ADA 2007 two weeks ago on subscription and just received it today. We have three versions of vanilla cad and I was used to having the migration copy most of the stuff over and mesh them together.

[Anonymous]

look under what installs in the START menu.
for ADT6 I hav a "migrate custom settings"
for ADT7 I just have the keynote migrate.
Not sure what they do, I didn;t use them


wrote in message news:5537175@discussion.autodesk.com...
I just received Arch. 2008 and I couldn't find a migration tool. Did anyone
else have that problem? Or did I just miss and recustomize it on my own
without having to?

Sean

[Anonymous]

There is little you want to auto-migrate from 'vanilla' autocad, take
the time and set up adt2007 as it's own seat, the manually copy over
items of importance and set up. ADT has a lot of features, hobbling it
to look and act like plain autocad is real easy and probably not what
you spent all the extra money for... .

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Dean Saadallah
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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[Anonymous]

I basically wanted to try and set it up pretty much as my 'vanilla' cad, we won't ever use the Adt 2008 as it was meant to you use, we basically got it because a lot of our clients use it and we wanted to be able to edit it if we needed to. Other than that we will basically use the basic ACAD setup in it which is what I was trying to incorporate my previous ACAD into. I am guessing that it sees the ACAD and the Architecture profiles completely separate? Are my assumptions correct?

[Anonymous]

When installing ACA 2008, if you use the custom option, you have the ability
to also have it install an icon for just vanilla Autocad 2008 in additon to
the icon for ACA. There is also a way to add the icon after you have
installed ACA but you will need tosearch the autodesk.arch-desktop news
group for that solution unless someone here remembers how to do that.

wrote in message news:5537547@discussion.autodesk.com...
I basically wanted to try and set it up pretty much as my 'vanilla' cad, we
won't ever use the Adt 2008 as it was meant to you use, we basically got it
because a lot of our clients use it and we wanted to be able to edit it if
we needed to. Other than that we will basically use the basic ACAD setup in
it which is what I was trying to incorporate my previous ACAD into. I am
guessing that it sees the ACAD and the Architecture profiles completely
separate? Are my assumptions correct?

[Anonymous]

A method of creating an ADT as AutoCAD desktop icon can be found here:
http://modocrmadt.blogspot.com/2006/10/creating-adt-as-autocad-shortcut.html

Or you can look at one of these Knowledge Base articles:
2007: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS1060632
2006: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS1054762
3 & 3.3: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS67732
2 & 2i: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS59839

Prior to ADT 2006, getting the ADT ARX modules not to load should an ADT command be invoked involves disabling the automatic loading of ARX modules, which can affect AutoCAD commands, too. The Layer Manager and other actions also may cause the ADT modules to load, see http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS84660

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David Koch
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator
Using ADT 2004 at work; access to 2005, 2006 & 2007 at home

[Anonymous]

'migrate custom settings' basically walks you through a dialogue in which you can point to menu files, .pgp file, .pat files etc. to include in your setup rather than the OOTB files. Works fairly well. I haven't cracked '08 yet so I can't comment intelligently on that.

Keith D. Rodebush
SGAI