Acad Install and profiles...

[Rob Outman]

Hi all,

Is it possible to "import" an existing profile into AutoCAD by using AcadInstall?

TIA,

Rob

 

[Nauman M]

I use regedit for that. If you save out the profile rename it to a .reg file (from .arg) and at the end of installation (considering your paths are all the same) just do a

REGEDIT /s "drive:\myacadprof.REG"

thats it.

make sure your Icon is calling the new profile name.

or you can always use a script when running it for the first time and use vla functions to import the ARG file

 

[Byron Blattel]

Hi all,

Is it possible to "import" an existing profile into AutoCAD by using AcadInstall?

TIA,

Rob

I could add an IMPORT= key to the [NEWPROFILE] section...

On the other hand, AcadInstall essentially builds and adds to existing profiles. Not sure why you'd want to use it if you already have a profile to import...

What are you trying to do?

 

[Rob Outman]

Hi Byron...

I am sure I have told you before... but EXCELLENT Program!

Anyway...

I do tons of AutoCAD installs on a weekly basis (systems coming off lease, training systems, TDY laptops etc...) part of this install is to copy a company standard profile from the server and import it into AutoCAD. I was just curious as to whether or not AcadInstall would allow me to import the profile rather than having to open AutoCAD, and import the profile everytime I do an install. Sure would be a timesaver!

Rob

Hi all,

Is it possible to "import" an existing profile into AutoCAD by using AcadInstall?

TIA,

Rob

I could add an IMPORT= key to the [NEWPROFILE] section...

On the other hand, AcadInstall essentially builds and adds to existing profiles. Not sure why you'd want to use it if you already have a profile to import...

What are you trying to do?

 

[Byron Blattel]

Hi Byron...

I am sure I have told you before... but EXCELLENT Program!

Anyway...

I do tons of AutoCAD installs on a weekly basis (systems coming off lease, training systems, TDY laptops etc...) part of this install is to copy a company standard profile from the server and import it into AutoCAD. I was just curious as to whether or not AcadInstall would allow me to import the profile rather than having to open AutoCAD, and import the profile everytime I do an install. Sure would be a timesaver!

Rob

Thanks

If all you are doing with AcadInstall is to import an existing .arg you might as well use REGEDIT as Nauman suggested.

Are you currently using AcadInstall as part of the process?

It's no big deal to add an import ability, but I'll just be calling regedit from within AcadInstall...

How do you do your AutoCAD installs?

 

[Ed Jobe]

Just rename the .arg to .reg and double click on it.

 

[Rob Outman]

Actually I am using InnoSetup to do a bunch of configuration at once... After the installs are done, I am copying cfg files, arg files and a bunch of other things over to the users local drive from the server... I just figured that while running that executable I could add one more item to the list by automatically importing the .arg into AutoCAD and have it all done in one fell swoop!

I am running a silet network install when installing AutoCAD!