Can't force path to partial CUI in 2008

[jpaulsen]

I am trying to setup my 2008 CUIs the same way I did it in 2007 but I can't get it to work. I am using Civil 3D and Land Desktop companion (LDC) so I have many CUIs.

I copied all the CUIs to a network path.

I open LDC and set land.cui from the network as the main. I removed all partials then used cuiload to load the partials from the network.

Most of the partials will not remember the path to the network. Instead it loads them from my local Windows profile.

I tried loading the partials through the CUI. Same result.

I even tried modifying the CUI file and adding the path. Same result. Here is a sample of the area that I changed in the CUI file. It is at the start of the file. This sample is prior to me adding the path to the problem partials.

 
<CustSection xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <FileVersion MajorVersion="0" MinorVersion="4" IncrementalVersion="1" UserVersion="0" />
  <Header>
    <CommonConfiguration>
      <CommonItems>
        <ModifiedRev MajorVersion="16" MinorVersion="2" UserVersion="0" />
        <PartialMenuFile>map3dgeospatial.cui</PartialMenuFile>
        <PartialMenuFile>map3ddrawings.cui</PartialMenuFile>
        <PartialMenuFile>mapclassic.cui</PartialMenuFile>
        <PartialMenuFile>z:\autodesk 2008\jrmenu\2008 cui\aecco.cui</PartialMenuFile>
        <PartialMenuFile>z:\autodesk 2008\jrmenu\jr.cui</PartialMenuFile>
      </CommonItems>

Does anyone know how I can force it to load my partials from a network drive?

[jpaulsen]

I figured out how I got this to work in 2007. The path to the network CUIs needs to be in the support files search path before the local path.

I would still like to know how to hard code the path for a partial CUI into the main CUI file.