Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Stand-Alone Installation
- Migrating and Customizing
- Migrate Custom Settings and Files from Previous Releases
- Customize AutoCAD with Initial Setup
- Export and Import Custom Settings from the Same Release
- Migrating and Customizing Issues
- What are the benefits of identifying my industry?
- How is this information being used?
- What happens if I skip or cancel Initial Setup?
- What are the benefits of selecting task-based tools?
- What is a workspace?
- How do I make changes to a workspace at a later time?
- What is a drawing template file?
- How do I modify drawing templates at a later time?
- What are the benefits of customizing AutoCAD?
- Network Administration and Deployment
- Preparing a Deployment
- Setting Up and Creating a Deployment
- Prepare for a Network Deployment
- Configure Individual Products
- Your Deployment Choices
- Enter User and Product Information
- Creating Log Files
- What Is Silent Mode?
- Select a License Type (Optional)
- Select the Installation Type (Optional)
- Select Installation Folders for Support Content
- Define Search Paths and File Locations (Optional)
- Install Additional Files (Optional)
- Specify User Preferences (Optional)
- Include Service Packs (Optional)
- Configure InfoCenter Communication Center (Optional)
- Allow Users to Access Online Resources (Optional)
- Create a Default Deployment
- Create a Custom Deployment
- Modify a Deployment (Optional)
- Point Users to the Administrative Image
- Distributing an Autodesk Program
- Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the text editor used for?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit of using a network licensed version of the software?
- What features get installed during a Typical or Custom installation?
- How do I access my product documentation?
- What is SAMreport-Lite?
- Deployment Issues
- Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a deployment?
- Where should deployments be located?
- What are the default search paths and file location settings?
- How will changing the support file locations affect my search paths?
- Along with defining search paths and file location, can files be added?
- Where can I check if service packs are available for my software?
- How do I extract an MSP file?
- Can Online Resource settings be modified later?
- Where can I learn about InfoCenter?
- What are information channels?
- What are the benefits to enabling CAD Manager Channels?
- What are RSS feeds and how do they benefit my installation?
- Where can I learn about InfoCenter search locations?
- How do I set or customize search locations?
- Networking Issues
- When installing tools and utilities, which selections are applicable for a multi-seat stand-alone installation?
- When installing tools and utilities, which selections are applicable for a stand-alone installation?
- Where do I find my server name?
- When specifying user workstation settings, I am given the option to specify a profile. What are profiles?
- Can I create custom desktop shortcuts?
- What happens when you choose to append or merge service packs?
- What is an administrative image (MSI) file?
- What is the impact of selecting all products for the administrative image, and can I add products later?
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- When adding or removing features, how can I tell what features get installed by default?
- Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding or removing features?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of a repair?
- Do I need my original disc(s) to reinstall my product?
- After repairing my installation, is it possible to recover my settings?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- General Installation Issues
- Glossary
- Index
■ Customize User Interface dialog box. Converts legacy menu (MNU and
MNS) and CUI files to the CUIx format while leaving the original file
unchanged. Migrating user interface elements, transferring data between
customized files, and customizing user interface elements are simplified
in this dialog box. For more information about the CUIx file format and
how to migrate menu and CUI files, see User Interface Customization in
the Customization Guide.
■ Migration tools. Aid migration of settings or files that cannot be
automatically migrated (such as AutoLISP
®
files and the accompanying
MNL files) or that require you to make a decision about which files to
migrate (such as which files in a set of drawing files). Download these
migration tools by visiting www.autodesk.com and then performing a search
on Migration Tools.
NOTE For information about customizing files and settings, see the Customization
Guide, accessible from the Documentation link on the AutoCAD Installation wizard
and in the Help system.
Migrate Custom Settings
If you install AutoCAD on a computer where a previous release of the AutoCAD
product is installed, you can migrate some custom settings from a previous
release to your newer AutoCAD product.
Migrate the user profile. This file contains drawing environment settings such
as screen color, cursor size, command line window font, and the dictionary
to use for checking spelling. The user profile file also includes the folders in
which AutoCAD searches for support, driver, customization, and other files.
If you customized files in a location other than the default AutoCAD location,
the path to the location is migrated. The files themselves do not get migrated.
Migrate linetypes, hatch patterns, and command aliases that you created.
The data from these files is added to a user-defined section of the AutoCAD
files, to make it easy for you to find this information and migrate this data to
future releases. You cannot use the Migrate Custom Settings dialog box to
migrate shell commands or comments that you made to your acad.pgp file.
NOTE If you have made changes to partial plotter configuration (PC3) files that
are located in a custom folder, those files are migrated to the AutoCAD PC3 folder,
which is located under your custom PC3 folder. PC3 files are migrated to a separate
folder to maintain backward compatibility with previous AutoCAD releases.
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