Transparent Local file creation

[david.kingham]

Just find :ArchiveLocal and replace everything between that and :CopyCentral
I would recommend getting a text editor that will really help you see what is going on, I would recommend Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

[jasonq2139338]

thanks. i figured it out. So what does the RAC 2008.bat do exactly?

[david.kingham]

It looked something like this

@echo off
regedit.exe /s "\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Batch Files\2008\RAC2008.reg"
set KBS="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\2008\RAC2008\Keyboardshortcuts.txt"
set INI="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\2008\RAC2008\revit.ini"
set RVT="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program"
set TUT="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Defaults\Architecture\2008\TutorialsBuildingImpENU.chm"
set EXT="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Extensions"
set EXTLOC="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program\Extensions"

xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %TUT% %RVT%
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %KBS% %RVT% 
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %INI% %RVT%

mkdir %EXTLOC%
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h /s %EXT% %EXTLOC%

del "C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program\Content.rcl"

set path="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\program"
start /high /max Revit.exe

[jasonq2139338]

It looked something like this

@echo off
regedit.exe /s "\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Batch Files\2008\RAC2008.reg"
set KBS="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\2008\RAC2008\Keyboardshortcuts.txt"
set INI="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\2008\RAC2008\revit.ini"
set RVT="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program"
set TUT="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Defaults\Architecture\2008\TutorialsBuildingImpENU.chm"
set EXT="\\nevada\drawings\Revit\Files\Extensions"
set EXTLOC="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program\Extensions"

xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %TUT% %RVT%
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %KBS% %RVT% 
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h %INI% %RVT%

mkdir %EXTLOC%
xcopy /c /v /q /y /i /r /h /s %EXT% %EXTLOC%

del "C:\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program\Content.rcl"

set path="c:\program files\Revit Architecture 2008\program"
start /high /max Revit.exe

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so what does this part of code do for me? edited it as well so it didnt open revit automatically as i am a it person who would run form pc to pc and do not need to open revit everytime. thanks

[david.kingham]

Fixes some registry keys for the no start problem, if you don't have a problem with revit not starting then don't worry about it.
Copies revit.ini and keyboardshortcuts so every computer is the same
Copies the tutorials because my network deployments seem to miss it for some reason
Copies some files for extensions
And deletes the content.rcl which tells revit to download the rest of the content, usually not a problem but has been once or twice
Most people wouldn't go to this length, but what can I say, I'm an anal *******

[jasonq2139338]

Copies revit.ini and keyboardshortcuts so every computer is the same
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where is it grabbing it from though? like all my staff has their own keyboard shortcuts. can i delete this line in order to preserve their unique shortcut files? sorry for all the questions. just new to this idea for revit. =)

[david.kingham]

Just delete this from the original script

:SetupStart

    call "Q:\Revit\Files\Batch Files\2008\RAC2008.bat"
    cls    
    @echo off
    echo Done!
    echo Local File created in C:\Revit Local Files\%PRJ%
    type "Q:\Revit\Files\Batch Files\echo.txt"
pause

[jasonq2139338]

aha. i did just notice though you are specifying the path for the keyboard shortcut file. so i could do the same really. i could say:

(in the RAC2008.bat file)
set KBS="\\Program Files\Revit Architecture 2008\Program\Keyboardshortcuts.txt"

right? that way it pulls the correct txt file from their own cpu that they have edited already.

[david.kingham]

If you don't want to change their keyboardshortcuts then just don't replace it with anything...I believe you're overthinking this...

[NKramer]

Has anybody updated their code to auto open the workshare monitor? Its just another safety net that we would like to standardize.

Thanks,

Nick