sharing tool Palettes on a network with Autocad 2020

[Mr.Hella]

I'm looking to push updated Tool Palettes to all of my users on my network automatically, without having to export every single Tool Palette individually with the Export tool & then having to import them onto all of the users local machines.

The Autodesk Tech Support Member that responded to my support request informed me that there is NO way of updating Tool Palettes in this manner, no matter if you share the .ATC files on a server share or not, you have to run the Import-Export routines all individually!

Autodesk Tech Support suggested that I post here to see if anyone in the group has come up with a resolution to this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[pendean]

Do you have all the basics of the sharing setup in place already? Explained here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/sharing-tool-palettes-in-autocad-2017/m-p/6841839#M1609...

[Mr.Hella]

Yes sir, I have the basics. It's the updating part for the rest of the users that seems to be the sticking point. I only have (7) users, not 100s, & am basically the only guy that updates them.

My custom palettes are on a network share because when I had the local pathed directory configured in addition to the network share, Autocad would create the updated palette in that local directory only, not on the network share. When I deleted the local directory, I of course lost access to Autocads built in palettes which I'm ok with, but at least I appear to be editing the palette residing on the network share.

The issue at hand appears to be that there is no vehicle for the other users on the network to get the updates automatically without some sort of Macro or lisp routine. is that it in a nutshell?!

Regards,

Mark

[CodeDing]

@Mr.Hella ,

If I'm not mistaken,  you can merely add something like this to your acaddoc or acad lisp file:

(setvar "*_TOOLPALETTEPATH" "s:\\mynetwork\\sharedfolder\\mytoolpalettefolder")

Once every user has opened a dwg in autocad, then you can remove it from your acaddoc or acad lisp file (if you want).

To add multiple palette paths:

(setvar "*_TOOLPALETTEPATH" "s:\\mynetwork\\sharedfolder\\mytoolpalettefolder;s:\\mynetwork\\anothersharedfolder\\anothertoolpalettefolder")

(clearly change "s:" to whatever your drive will be...)

Here is the *_TOOLPALETTEPATH info.

EDIT: of course, this is under the assumption that all users share the "acad.lsp" and "acaddoc.lsp" from a network location also. If not, then create the correct (setvar ...) and have them copy/paste into their command line.

Hope this helps. Best,

~DD

[mrkzjkb]

What you need is to create palettes sets instead of palettes groups.  Go to the Autodesk University website and search for tool palettes. There is plenty of materials on how to create and share tool palettes sets. 

[andre.chaisson]

What exactly is a tool palette set?