Autodesk Construction Cloud / Docs

[richard.farmer]

Has anyone else's business moved their date storage 100% to Construction Cloud and moved totally away from having a local server?

The reason I ask is I'm wondering how people manage customised tool palettes? If you've got blocks that are inserted from a tool palette, the tool palette looks to a specified address for a dwg that contains the block. When using a local server that works fine as the address is the same for everyone (e.g. f:\CADStandards\Blocks\file.dwg).

However if the desktop connector is used to connect computer to the cloud data, the file address would be different for everyone (well, it is here where I work anyway). Here the address looks like C:\Users\USERID\DC\ACCDocs\Company. USERID is unique to individuals so it varies for everyone, therefore the file address for the dwg containing the block changes for everyone.

Have others encountered this issue and is there a work around?

Thanks,

[nmulder]

The short answer is to ditch tool palettes and switch to the relatively new BLOCKS palette. Read below for more info.

We haven't moved 100% to ACC but we are moving that direction. We use Sharepoint/OneDrive for 'support' files and ACC for project files, but the premise is the same. We are 90/10 Revit/AutoCAD. It's a much simpler workflow for Revit, but I will share what I've learned so far for AutoCAD.

I use the RK McSwain method for managing the AutoCAD environment: https://www.autodesk.com/blogs/autoc...f6310ebcfd66b7. This little line of LISP code (setq *server* (getenv "userprofile")) will get you each user's unique C drive user profile. From there you can combine it with the rest of the cloud storage address to set paths for all kinds of AutoCAD settings. Using Notepad+ you could also modify the paths of the tool palettes to use these uniqe user paths.

More to your question about tool palettes however, I laregly chose to part ways with tool palettes and am instead using the BLOCKS palette. You lose some functionality compared to tool palettes, but you gain more flexibility and easier implementation. I kept one tool palette for some things like multileaders and LISP routines, but not blocks.

Lastly, if you use sheet set manager with your AutoCAD projects, I strongly suggest you reconsider your plans to move to ACC. SSM is not supported. There is SSM for Web but it's not a full replacement for SSM.