Sharing a Profile (*.arg)

[Anonymous]

Civil 3D 2018 Win 7

Hi,

I am deploying C3D to several workstations in the office. I want to create a profile that points to networked locations for several categories, including having the app start using a networked profile. Every workstation will use this profile to start up.

What I am wondering about is how Windows usernames come into it when you use a common profile. I looked in the profile I have saved so far, and 7 lines down is this: "UserName"="wudar" where "wudar" is me (the current user).

can I delete this line, or put in a field or whatever that will get the Windows username for whenever it needs one?

Any advice?

thanks

[dmfrazier]

Looking at my own exported profiles (ARG files) from basic AutoCAD, I see the same thing about four lines from the top of the file.

I think this only indicates who the Windows user was at the time of the profile export, perhaps for "auditing" purposes, and it will have no impact on the results of importing into and using the profile in AutoCAD by a different user on the same machine or on another machine.

The only place(s) where the actual Windows usernames would come into play during the importing and use of a profile (ARG) would be in any support file (or other) search paths that point to a "roamable" Windows user profile folder. Even though each user sees his/her own username in those paths when looking in Options, I think these are actually stored with a replaceable parameter (something like %user%), so that it automatically adjusts itself based on the login ID of the Windows user who imports and uses the profile.

Hope that answers your question.

P.S. It's actually the entire path segment that is stored as %RoamableRootFolder% (which contains the current user name), not just the user name.

[cadffm]

Hi drenaud

the DesktopLink start Switch change nothing! IF cad Profile with that name exist in the windows registry of this win user.
Cad import the *.arg profile only if no Profil with the profilename is present (could another than filename), if present cad start with existing profile.

So you can have a profile (arg) on Network, but not one network profile.

If you know that, ok.
Otherwise and you want to "reset" the Profile you have to handle the registry stored profile AND DesktopLink switch /p