Hi,
What is the easiest way of deploying a custom tool bar I made to all my users without disrupting their current workspace/profiles?
Thanks
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Hi,
What is the easiest way of deploying a custom tool bar I made to all my users without disrupting their current workspace/profiles?
Thanks
If the toolbar resides in a menu that is accessible to everyone, and if everyone is pointed to the same location for their startup files, you could use a bit of lisp code to load the toolbar at startup.
R.K. McSwain | CAD Panacea |
I would agree with R.K. If the toolbar is located in an enterprise CUI file, it is pretty easy to make the toolbar available. Otherwise, if you are only using the main CUI file and everyone is using their own version, you are well and truly stuck.
The only option in the latter case would be to make people use the Transfer tab to import the toolbar, but then you lose control of it. (Do you see the strong hints that you should be using an enterprise CUI file?)
R. Robert Bell
Design Technology Manager
Stantec
Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect the views of Stantec.
Enterprise CUI is the way to go. Until then, I bet you could probably create your toolbar in a new CUI file that resides on your network. Then have your users use CUILOAD and browse to this file. It should load as a partial CUI under their current Main CUI. I did some quick testing and did this, exited AutoCAD, came back and the toolbars were available.
That might work? Robert, what do you think?
R. Robert Bell
Design Technology Manager
Stantec
Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect the views of Stantec.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is an enterprise CUIx?
And I've seen CUIx in many places today and want to know if the "x" is a number assigned to the CUI or something else.
I've been out of the customization game for a long, long time and I'm just now starting to get my feet wet again.
Thanks much
It seems to be a newer version of XML. MS Office files are now "docx", "xlsx" etc..
So, no, the x is x, not a placeholder for a number.
R.K. McSwain | CAD Panacea |
Along with that, CUI files were used by versions of AutoCAD prior to 2010. AutoCAD 2010 went to the CUIX format, which is the compressed file containing all the files for the Customize User Interface.
So, when I refer to the CUI or CUIX file, I simply leave the "x" in lower-case because it may, or may not, be the file extension the reader will see.
R. Robert Bell
Design Technology Manager
Stantec
Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect the views of Stantec.