Enterprise CUI Setup

[rad.77676]

I'm new to CUI, so please bear with me on this!

I would like to setup an enterprise CUI so that company standard pulldown cannot be modified. I would like to setup two workspaces, one for our designers and one for drafters.
I would also like to setup a custom.CUI that each user could modify to suit their own work style.
Does this sound reasonable, doable?

I copied the acad.cui to a location on our network and as close as I can figure, I need to set it as the main cui in options "to modify" and then set it back to the enterprise cui when I am finished setting it up the way that I need?

I watched the autodesk tutorials, but they were not clear about the process of setting these up.

Any suggestions on this would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob

[Opie]

What I understand about CUI is to have two seperate profiles. One profile is for a CAD manager profile. This profile would have the enterprise CUI file as the main CUI and not have an enterprise CUI set for that profile. Then a second profile would be a USER profile. This profile is for the everyday user that needs no customization of the enterprise CUI. This profile would also have the enterprise CUI (which is read only) set as the Enterprise Menu, and a custom CUI set to the Main Menu.

You may want to look at some Notes on the philosophy of CUI.

HTH

[rad.77676]

What I understand about CUI is to have two seperate profiles. One profile is for a CAD manager profile. This profile would have the enterprise CUI file as the main CUI and not have an enterprise CUI set for that profile. Then a second profile would be a USER profile. This profile is for the everyday user that needs no customization of the enterprise CUI. This profile would also have the enterprise CUI (which is read only) set as the Enterprise Menu, and a custom CUI set to the Main Menu.

You may want to look at some Notes on the philosophy of CUI.

HTH

Thanks Richard,
That is a big help!
I think what I want to accomplish is possible, I have setup the profiles as you suggested and now I am looking at modifying the enterprise cui.
I am creating 2 workspaces, one Drafting and one Design.

My question is can I set the drafting workspace to the Acad.cui and the Design workspace to the Civil.cui?

[RobertB]

If you are supporting different verticals, it would be best to not mix your cui files. So that would mean two office cui files, one to support Acad.cui and one for Civil.cui. At issue here is that if Civil.cui is loaded into the AutoCAD profile, the Civil program is loading somewhat. But it might not work fully since it didn't start from the normal profile. Not to mention clogging vanilla AutoCAD with Civil stuff.

[rad.77676]

Thanks Robert,
After my post, I figured out that I would have to go with two cui files.
Rob

[rad.77676]

Thanks Robert,
After my post, I figured out that I would have to go with two cui files.
Rob

Just when you think you've got everything figured out something else goes wrong!

Robert, Anyone,
I setup three desktop icons each to load their own profile Design, Draft, Manager.arg

I set the pathing in options to reflect the cui file that each would reference as an enterprise cui, and then set the main path for manager to the cui that I want to change.
The design.cui is based off of the Civil.cui and the Draft.cui is base off of the Acad.cui

Then I notice that my pulldown is not where I want it, so I created a draft & design workspace to move the pulldowns.

All is well until I open the design profile and I realize that my designers will need both civil tools and acad tools inside the same work environment.
I'm assuming that the question marks on the toolbars are from the missing acad.cui?

Any suggestions?
What am I missing here?

Rob

[RobertB]

Just when you think you've got everything figured out something else goes wrong!
...
All is well until I open the design profile and I realize that my designers will need both civil tools and acad tools inside the same work environment.
I'm assuming that the question marks on the toolbars are from the missing acad.cui?
So the designers are never working in a vanilla environment? Always civil-enabled but you just want some of the Acad.cui elements available also?

If so, you can simply load the Acad.cui file as a partial to either your enterprise or main cui file.

[rad.77676]

So the designers are never working in a vanilla environment? Always civil-enabled but you just want some of the Acad.cui elements available also?


After some further thought, I will only need two Enterprise CUI and two profiles.
One for straight Civil 3d, and one Vanilla Acad
If I want to show civil 3d pulldowns, but have acad tools available, how do I load acad as a partial menu and not have the pulldowns show at the same time as civil pulldowns?

Thanks for your help!

[RobertB]

Simply create a workspace to show the approriate menus.