changing default print options (destination folder)

[jetted4]

Hi  🙂

My computer was recently reformatted to fix a bug but all of my settings reverted to defaults it seems.

One that I can't figure out how to fix is the default print to file location.

When I try to publish multiple pages (to PDF), in the pop -up menu there is a box labeled Publish Options.  There isn't anything in the menu I can click on to choose that the default print location be the most recently accessed folder.  When I try to delete the default folder ...\cadprintjobs\ in the hopes that it will then ask, Autocad crashes.

How do I set this the way I need?

[pendean]

So you cannot do these five steps in PUBLISH command to do what you want?

[jetted4]

I am able to change the print location as you marked, but that's a default directory.  What I want is to remove that default location and have it assume it should print to the most recently printed to/accessed directory (i.e., wherever I printed to last time).

Not a huge deal, but it used to do that before my PC got reformatted and it's kind of a pain since we have a lengthy directory structure to have to specify everytime where I want it to print to if I am making changes to the same file and need to reprint to PDF.

[pendean]

Not an option once that default is set AFAIK, its a long term wishlist.

Do this built-in folder navigation ability as a workaround for now while others chime in with other ideas https://envisioncad.com/save-your-favorite-locations-in-autocad/

HTH

[jetted4]

Thanks 🙂

The tips in the link look like it's just for saving files, though, not printing to a file.

I inherited this PC from a former draftsperson at our company.  Until just recently when my machine was reformatted to get rid of a computer restart glitch, printing to a PDF in Autocad always used to offer the last used file directory, not a default, so it must be something that Autocad CAN be set for, but I lost that setting with the PC reformat....

[pendean]

This tip is about how to add folders to the sidebar in AutoCAD's pop-up from OPEN, PUBLISH and way more: it is worth trying before dismissing since it works just fine 🙂

But hey, what do I know LOL

[jetted4]

I am sorry.  I wasn't trying to dismiss.  When I skimmed through it I didn't see anything for Publishing so I guess I looked at it too quickly.

Thank you.

[RobDraw]

I'm away from CAD so I can't test this before posting. 

Does changing the value of REMEMBERFOLDERS do anything for that?

[jetted4]

Looking at the description, it seems like it ought to, but mine's already set to 1.

Strange, though, that when I just tried printing again, when I selected only a single page, it remembered the previous print to folder, but when I try to print multiple pages to PDF (which is 99% of the time what I need) it will not remember now, just goes to the default folder specified at the top in the publish options menu every time...