Expert: Bill DeShawn - 8/6/2010

Question
Hello Shawn,
I have used ACAD since the 1980's, but am fairly new to ACAD 2000. I want to set up the environment in AutoCad 2000 to save my drawings in a different location than C:\program files\ACAD2000 which is the default location. In the Tools\Options\files I find many other environment variables but have not been successful in changing my default drawing file location. Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer
Hi, Bob.  BTW, my name is Bill.  My last name is DeShawn.  :-)

For the first folder to open when you open AutoCAD, you need to right click on the shortcut that you use to start AutoCAD, scroll down to "Properties" and change "Start in" to show the path to the folder you want to open to start your search for the drawing you want to open.  So, if your projects are in the C:\PROJECTS folder, then you need to write C:\PROJECTS where it says "Start in" in the shortcut properties dialog.

There is another system variable called "REMEMBERFOLDERS".  I turn that variable off for me and I like it that way.  Play with that to see whether you want it on or off.

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