Make custom borders available for co-workers

[wilson.broeksema]

Hello,

I've created a few custom borders and planning to create a new custom titleblock. 

I've set it up on my workstation and it works fine. I'm able to insert the custom borders in my drawing. I've saved it to an new template *.dwt. 

What I'm struggling with is how to make the custom borders available for my co-workers. I suppose saving it in the template should be enough but when I create a new drawing on my co-workers workstation using the new template the new borders are not available.

Can anyone help my out?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Wilson

AutoCAD Mechanical 2019

[pendean]

Do you all access a server or centralized computer for all of your shared content? Saving a template on your own computer (and not to a central shared location) is not going to automagically populate everyone else' computer with it.

[wilson.broeksema]

Thanks for you reply.

I now find out that I didn't made my self clear enough. I'll try to explain our way of working (which is, I assume, a common wow)

The template is stored at the server. We all have access to that location and use the same template. 

I create a new drawing on my co-workers workstation based on the server-stored template with the new custom borders. 

At my workstation it works fine, but not at the rest.

Hope this explains enough.

Kind regards,

Wilson

[cheryl.buck]

Hi @wilson.broeksema,

Thank you for the clarification. Some details that would be helpful in troubleshooting the issue would be:

• Was the border drawn in the template, inserted (as a block), or is it an Xref?
• If the border is an external reference (Xref) where is it located?
• How are you opening the file? How are your coworkers?

If you want to post the file, I would be happy to check it. 

All the best, 

[cheryl.buck]

Hi @wilson.broeksema,

I am checking back to see if you still need help with this issue, If you were able to resolve it the issue, please post an update letting the community know your solution. 

All the best,

[m_latz · Accepted solution]

I suppose you mean the borders and titles are not available in the "amtitle" dialog ?

If this is the case, check and try the following ...

Open windows explorer and navigate to the folders:

C:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Mechanical 2019\R23.0\enu\Recent\title

check if there are shortcuts in that folder. If so copy these to your co-workers pc. Do the same for the "format" folder.

regards

Markus

[wilson.broeksema]

Hello Markus,

Indeed the problem was that the borders were not available in the AMTITLE-window.

After investigating the shortcut presence I found out that the path to the files in the shortcuts was not right.

After relocating the shortcuts it all works fine.

So you pointed me in the right direction. Thank you! 

Reason that I didn't respond earlier is that I'm supposed to spend just a few hours per week at this kind of problems.

Apologies for the delay in responding.

Kind regards,

Wilson