AutoCAD 2015 .PGP Profile Switching

[Anonymous]

Hello 🙂

Not sure if I am posting in the correct place so I apologize in advance (I am an IT guy with little actual use of CAD other than installations)!  I recently uninstalled, and did a fresh install of AutoCAD 2015 for one of our users here.  With the reinstall his .pgp files were not transferred over and the .pgp is defaulting to the master .pgp.  He drives differently than the other coordinators/drafters so he doesn't want to make edits to the master .pgp.  How do I set the .pgp to his own personal profile that he can edit instead of defaulting to that master .pgp file?  Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

The acad.pgp files are stored in the individual user folders on your local machine by default.  For example, typing (findfile "acad.pgp") at the command prompt on my machine returns

"C:\\Users\\pmcknight\\appdata\\roaming\\autodesk\\autocad 2014\\r19.1\\enu\\support\\acad.pgp"

That said, if I read your post correctly, it seems your users all reference a master pgp file in some other location.  If you open the pgp file and look at the the top it says,

"Each time you open a new or existing drawing, AutoCAD searches the support path and reads the first acad.pgp file that it finds."

If you edit the search file support paths in the options dialog and put a folder with his specific pgp file above the folder with the master, then his will load on his machine while it won't on others.

Hope this helps a bit.

[3wood]

I haven't tried followings by myself. Just some thoughts.

1. Different Windows users can have their own pgp files since it is saved in C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD xxxxx\Support\acad.pgp and it is user name related.

2. If it is under the same login user name, you may try set up different PROFILEs in AutoCAD to allow using different pgp files.