Friday, June 23, 2006
Job Setup & Background Updates
Production Topic: Setting up new jobs & processing background updates
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Relative Paths & Reference Manager
Production Topic: Utilizing relative paths and the reference manager effectively.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Publish & PLT
Production Topic: Effectively utilizing the publish command and PLT routine
Monday, June 19, 2006
Personal Hotkeys & Toolbars
Production Topic: Creating your own custom hotkeys and toolbars
- Enterprise Versus Local CUI: Autodesk has consolidated several formerly independent customization files in a 'Common User Interface', or CUI file.
- The CUI file contains workspaces, hotkeys, toolbars, mouse buttons, pulldown menus, context menus, lisp code, legacy menu support, and fragments of other client or discipline-specific CUIs.
- They have provided a bi-level implementation whereby an enterprise read-only CUI file may be centrally administered, and a local CUI file may be customized by the user as desired. 'ABS' is the name of the Enterprise CUI, the local CUI is called 'Custom'.
- The CUI Editor:
- Custom Hotkeys:
- Custom Toolbars:
- Recover or Relocate the Custom CUI: You did run the update process recently, yes? In addition to updating your local workstation, the update process creates a five-level backup of your custom CUI both locally and on the network. In other words, there are five snapshots of the local Custom CUI maintained locally and on the network corresponding to the date and time of the previous five updates.
Friday, June 16, 2006
USER.LSP and JOB.LSP
Production Topic: Effectively utilizing the JOB.LSP and the USER.LSP files
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Dyamic & Wipeout Blocks
Production Topic: Discussion of dynamic blocks and blocks constructed with embedded wipeouts.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Rolling Backups
Administrative Topic: Over & above whatever network backups provided by your IT department, you may find the following script useful...
