Open from Windows Explorer ignores profile

[CAtDiva]

Why is it that when someone opens a file from Windows Explorer (or an email), as often as not, the user's profile is ignored and a mutation is used instead?

This is most noticable in our tool palettes as we have custom tool palettes and what appears with the mutation are ACAD default palettes (not even ACA palettes). It is particularly frustrating for one user who is an occasional ACA user, so does not open ACA 2009 when he first gets on the computer like the rest of us. I also just setup ACA to run on the boss's machine and he will use it even less than the other architect, primarily to look at a drawing sent in email.

Is there anyway to fix the DWG Launcher to open the right profile?

[ccowgill]

Why is it that when someone opens a file from Windows Explorer (or an email), as often as not, the user's profile is ignored and a mutation is used instead?

This is most noticable in our tool palettes as we have custom tool palettes and what appears with the mutation are ACAD default palettes (not even ACA palettes). It is particularly frustrating for one user who is an occasional ACA user, so does not open ACA 2009 when he first gets on the computer like the rest of us. I also just setup ACA to run on the boss's machine and he will use it even less than the other architect, primarily to look at a drawing sent in email.

Is there anyway to fix the DWG Launcher to open the right profile?
this must just be a vertical thing, because when I open a drawing from Explorer, it opens using AutoCAD with the last profile I used. It is possible that because you are using a vertical, that launching the program using the dwg launcher loads the default AutoCAD stuff, as opposed to the vertical info (which may be launched using command switches in the shortcut for the vertical). This is just a theory, as I havent used a vertical since 2000.

[dgorsman]

this must just be a vertical thing, because when I open a drawing from Explorer, it opens using AutoCAD with the last profile I used. It is possible that because you are using a vertical, that launching the program using the dwg launcher loads the default AutoCAD stuff, as opposed to the vertical info (which may be launched using command switches in the shortcut for the vertical). This is just a theory, as I havent used a vertical since 2000.

A number of third party softwares have a setting that controls whether the last-used-profile is saved when the session is closed, so when you open a file by double-clicking AutoCAD may open in the last used *or* the last profile before that.

[bruce.jones542083]

Why is it that when someone opens a file from Windows Explorer (or an email), as often as not, the user's profile is ignored and a mutation is used instead?

This is most noticable in our tool palettes as we have custom tool palettes and what appears with the mutation are ACAD default palettes (not even ACA palettes). It is particularly frustrating for one user who is an occasional ACA user, so does not open ACA 2009 when he first gets on the computer like the rest of us. I also just setup ACA to run on the boss's machine and he will use it even less than the other architect, primarily to look at a drawing sent in email.

Is there anyway to fix the DWG Launcher to open the right profile?


Patient, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
Doctor, "Then don't do that."

Open AutoCAD files from within AutoCAD (opening from Explorer bypasses your customization and can create some linking problems with XFERs as well).