Once a standard autocad PROFILE has been distributed, what is the recommended...?

[Mike Hutchinson]

Once a standard autocad PROFILE has been distributed to each machine in the office, what is the recommended way to make a change in the Profile (settings stored in the registry) ? Don't really want to visit each machine to make the change.

 

[John Schmidt]

What we do is copy the changes we want out of a master profile, (.arg file), leave this remnant as a master.reg file, and include the line:

regedit /s master.reg

in the users' Windows logon scripts, (batch file). This way, only the updated info gets imported into the users' AutoCAD profiles. Note - this assumes the users' AutoCAD profiles all have the same name as the profile the master.reg was extracted from.

John.

 

[Jason Wilder]

If you can elaborate, what settings are you changing or controlling by using the profile?

 

[John Schmidt]

We standardize lots of thisng, such as isavepercent, maxsort, support paths, etc. Below is just a short portion of our master.reg to give you an idea what it looks like:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land Desktop\Dialogs\Appload\Startup] "NumStartup"="1" "1Startup"="\\\\0ds1\\DATA\\Cad\\Ctl\\Toolbox\\ReadOnlyCheck.dvb"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land Desktop\acadvba] "AutoEmbedding"=dword:00000000 "AllowBreakOnErrors"=dword:00000001 "ShowSecurityDlg"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land Desktop\Editor Configuration] "EmergencyFont"="romans.shx" "FontMappingFile"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Autodesk Shared\\acad.fmp" "LogFilePath"="c:\\land projects r2\\" "PSOUT_PrologFileName"="" "MainDictionary"="enu" "CustomDictionary"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Autodesk Shared\\sample.cus" "MTextEditor"="Internal" "XrefLoadPath"="C:\\Land Projects R2\\Temp" "SaveFilePath"="C:\\Land Projects R2\\Temp" "ACADLspAsDoc"=dword:00000001 "MaxSortEntries"=dword:00000190 "AutomaticSaveMinutes"=dword:00000014 "XrefLazyLoadMode"=dword:00000002 The advantage of doing it this way is that each user still has control over most of their preferences, while we only import certain ones we want standardized.

John

 

[Jason Piercey]

That is *exactly* what I do. Never messed with issuing/updating individual profiles.

 

[Jason Wilder]

Great minds think alike! must have something to do with the first name...

 

[Jason Piercey]

That must be it