Importing AutoCAD Profiles

[ebsoares]

Hi, all.

Is there a way of importing a profile *.arg file (in the "Options"|"Profiles" tab) and have it simply change settings under the "Options"|"Files" tab and nothing else?

I wouldn't mind going into the *.arg file and deleting lines, as long as I knew which ones were important. But would the profile import just fine if it did not have all the lines? For example, if I deleted everything in there that did not pertain to search paths, would it still load up?

Right now, when we load a profile *.arg file it changes everything... the cursor size, background color, buttons, the way it selects elements, etc., and it would be very important that each user could upload a profile, based on which client standards one's working on that day, and have their customizations untouched.

It might simply be that it can't be done, or i just don't know enough about profiles, but any help on this issue would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Edgar

[ebsoares]

Hi again.

Just an update. I got an answer to this issue at a thread I posted on AUGI today:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?166272-Importing-AutoCAD-Profiles&p=1313228#post1313228

If profiles really can't be changed, I guess this closes the issue.

[martti.halminen]

The .arg file looks like it is just an ordinary Windows registry dump.

So what you are asking for would likely be possible using Regedit when AutoCAD isn't running, see Regedit documentation.

- You'd better make good registry backups before experimenting with that!

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[ebsoares · Accepted solution]

Hi, Martti. Thanks for the reply.

I agree with you that working on the registry would fix that, but I would have to be pretty comfortable with going in there (like you said, make backups).

That thread I mentioned above from AUGI has a post by @rkmcswain with a link to an article, "Setting support paths via lisp", which is a lisp routine that does all that inside the CAD environment, editing only what's needed. Just right!

Edgar