Where is the Tool Palette Customization File Stored in Windows C Drive?

[rmitchellFGQ5Z]

Hello,

I have a company's customized Autocad Architecture 2024 tool palette and am trying to find where the information and configuration is saved to on the C drive. I am trying to do so for standardizing company user experience between machines/end points. I have attached an image of the window where the customizations are normally done, and corporate tool palettes are loaded to from the corporate content browser. This is done through the customize palettes tool in the right click menu shown in the attached picture on the left side.

I just can't figure out how to get these to "stick" when I deploy to other machines, etc. The content browser loads the corporate tool catalogs but then I'm stuck manually copying these into the customize palettes window. If anyone knows of the way to export these or find the C drive, program data, etc. folder or file that these get saved/stored to I would greatly appreciate it. This would help automate the deployment process and save me some time.

For example the content browser saves its contents to the .cbl file located in 

C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Documents\Autodesk\My Content Browser Library\ACA 2023

I'm trying to find the equivalent for the actual tool palette toolbar thing that floats on the left side of the screen (at least in the attached screenshot). My CUIX and ARG profiles don't seem to carry this over correctly. If it's supposed to exists/be saved within those files then let me know and I can dig there to figure out why it's not saving/loading correctly on new machines.

I know the import/export utility for ACA24 exists, but I have troubles using it where export will work but import doesn't (not sure why, I'm guessing due to network location references, etc.). This method also doesn't scale cleanly when I have to import on 50+ endpoints, etc. and manage them when they have issues.

Thanks!

[cadffm]

Hi,

sorry, but toolpalettes are not designed to manage them automatically or even centrally,
unfortunately Autodesk has not addressed this problem in the last two decades - Export/Import/Update 😞 .

Tool palette GROUPS (that's what you're talking about),
as well as changes to the display of tools within a palette,
are saved exclusively in the user profile! C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\<program>\<Rnn.n>\<lan>\Support\Profiles\<profilename>\Profile.aws

The import of the tool palette group export file is only offered via the GUI and AutoDESK does not offer any other tools.

Without depriving users of the opportunity to make their own adjustments in the software, you need your own or 3rd party tool to edit this file.

(check the current content, clean it up, add the current/new information)

[Valentin_CAD]

@rmitchellFGQ5Z ,

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@rmitchellFGQ5Z wrote:

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I'm trying to find the equivalent for the actual tool palette toolbar thing that floats on the left side of the screen (at least in the attached screenshot). My CUIX and ARG profiles don't seem to carry this over correctly. If it's supposed to exists/be saved within those files then let me know and I can dig there to figure out why it's not saving/loading correctly on new machines.

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Theses link can help:

• How to share tool palettes for AutoCAD and specialized toolset

• How to share a common tool palette in AutoCAD products on a network drive?

Modify the profile options (Options > Files > Tool Palettes File Locations) to point to the shared network location.

[rmitchellFGQ5Z]

So skipping the centralized management aspect and focusing only on the corporate Tool Palette group, which is what I need to 'export/import' so to say. If I have a single machine setup the way I like with company tool catalogs loaded to the content browser, and I have manually added them to a company specific "current/company palette group" and organized to my liking in order, icon size, text size, etc. and it's now a functional palette group on the right side of the customize window. Can I right click, export, or somehow find where that customized palette group is saved on my computer in the registry or C drive somewhere?

When I click the help button in that customize menu, it specifically pulls up instructions for ACA24 about how to right click and export the tool palette group. I have attached a screenshot. Research online suggests that this only works in base autocad and not architecture 2024, despite autodesk giving help instructions that it does. Am I missing something or is this the case? Either way, the computer/program must be saving the configuration/settings somewhere on the machine since it loads it correctly when I reopen ACA24 the next time.

I'm fine with manually loading it again via the GUI if its an import file or something. I just dont want to do all the right clicking, add tool palette, organize the order and settings of the various palettes, etc. on every endpoint. Imagine doing this on 50+ machines, etc. Manual only seems like an absurd process/setup. This seems like there has to be a file that stores these customizations, and I'm trying to avoid the nuclear option of just copying the entire ACA24 registry to duplicate this stuff.

[rmitchellFGQ5Z]

I clicked the second link in your post and found the instructions. Autocad Architecture 2024 gives the same instructions when I click the help button as I explained in the above post to the original responder. I would like to do the 2nd part of the instructions which I attached in a photo and highlighted. However, this right click export to xpg doesn't exist. There is no option to export or import when I right click on the custom tool palette group.

Are you saying that the profile.aws contains the custom tool palette grouping information and I just need to figure out how to move/copy that file around? I'm already using a .arg file that it automatically uses at program startup, but is the profile.aws a different file or same thing as the .arg we are using across all workstations to keep company consistency?

Thanks

[Valentin_CAD]

@rmitchellFGQ5Z ,

For AutoCAD Architecture refer to this forum:

• AutoCAD Architecture Forum - Autodesk Community

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@rmitchellFGQ5Z wrote:

... this right click export to xpg doesn't exist. There is no option to export or import when I right click on the custom tool palette group.

... is the profile.aws a different file or same thing as the .arg

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Read these links:

• AutoCAD Architecture 2022 Help | To Add the Project Profile to the Tool Palette File Location | Auto...
• Solved: Redirect AutoCAD to read the Profile.aws company file - Autodesk Community - AutoCAD
• How to transfer profile settings in AutoCAD Products

On Civil 3D, when you right click on the Palettes Groups side (right side) it allows you to save as *.xpg

On Civil 3D, when you right click on the Palettes side (left side) it allows you to save as *.xtp

[rmitchellFGQ5Z]

I appreciate the information. I'll post in the Autocad Architecture Forum. I wish I had the export options you show in the photos existed in ACA24, but that right click menu doesn't exist. No idea why, other than some decision made at Autodesk to strip it. 

I attached the photo below showing what I see.

Is there a file or folder that contains the custom added toolpalette and grouping information that can just be copied/pasted to bypass this lack of export functionality?

The last line of this article https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Network-deployment...
says that profile.aws contains the information about the tool palette groups.

Is there a way to put this on the C drive so that autocad loads it the first time a user loads the program instead of overwriting the file with out of the box defaults, etc?

[pendean]

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@rmitchellFGQ5Z wrote:

....Is there a way to ...

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ACA's Content Browser has nothing to do with TPs. Sorry. Plain AutoCAD has no such Content Browser ability either.

I recommend you stop adding to this post of yours and focus on the other in the correct ACA forum.