How Can I speed up Access to Frequently Used Folders?
One of the easiest ways to speed up access to your design project folders is to create a shortcut in the “My Places” frame so that every time you try to open or save a drawing, you are able to quickly click on a new path.
What do I need to do?
1.) Within AutoCAD choose the “OPEN” command. This will launch the “Select Files” dialog box as shown below.
This dialog box is broken into a couple of areas;
Tool Bar
My Places Bar
Files List box
Command Area
2.) Using the “Look in:” pull down located at the top left of the dialog box in the “Tool Bar” area, browse to the project folder you would like to work with.
3.) Now that you are looking at the project folder, you can move your mouse over to the “My Places” area of the dialog box and right click your mouse. This should pop up a new context menu as shown in the graphic.
Options Include:
Remove – This will delete the icon or shortcut directly below your mouse…Please leave the standard icons in place! Thanks.
4.) Choose the “Add Current Folder” option to add the current folder to the “My Places” shortcut bar.
5.) Right click over your new shortcut and choose “Properties…” Once the “Places Item Properties” dialog box appears as shown in the graphic, give your new shortcut a proper name. Make sure you don’t change the path.
6.) Did you know that you could also drag the folder from the listbox view into the places bar to quickly create a shortcut?
Hope you find that helpful!
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Do you want to always ensure that your users have the same custom files available for use in AutoCAD? An easy way to do this is to create a "seed file" folder on your network and then copy the following snippet of code into their acad.lsp file. Keep the acad.lsp file on the network and point each user to it and you can keep all your users up to date.
Assumption for this example:
;;; Check the following directory for standard seed files for users
;;; If they are not resident then copy them over.(setq SeedFiles "x:\\custom\\lisp" )
(setq RootUser "c:\\custom\\lisp")
;;;Use the foreach to cycle through each file found and check for a local copy
;;;If not found then copy it over and report...
(foreach n
(vl-directory-files SeedFiles nil 1)
(if (/=
(vl-file-systime (strcat RootUser "\\" n)
)
nil)
(princ)
(progn (vl-file-copy
(strcat SeedFiles "\\" n)
(strcat RootUser "\\" n)
) ;copy file
(prompt
(strcat "\nCopying " n " to User Personal folder on " RootUser)
)
);end progn file copy
);end for each
);end macro
(princ)
Hope that was helpful.
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http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/whats_new_in_th.html
http://www.augi.com/autodeskuniversity/default.asp
