Expert: Bill DeShawn - 5/26/2006

Question
Thanks so much for the quick response!
Our company is growing very fast, so I need to keep an eye to the not so distant future. With that in mind, your “enterprise” and “user” workspaces seem like a good solution. Once created and deployed to each station, they would not have to get it from the network every time they start AutoCAD would they? As I understand it, all this could be saved on their C: drive. Is that correct? One thread I read at AUGI said they ended up with several dozen (& still growing) workspaces on the network...that would turn into a nightmare. I would assume that your set-up at deployment (or the template, perhaps?) would contol paths for the enterprise.cui and user.cui, right? Are your users customizing their acad.cui? I was thinking of having them create partial menus for all their customization, but I’m not sure how this whole workspace thing works. It seems like the more I learn, the more questions I have!
Thanks again, Karen  
P.S. I had to erase my original question & your response to make this small enough to send, hope you remember me!  

Answer
If your AutoCAD installations are not network installations, but stand-alone (like ours are), it my assumption that all configuration is saved on your hard drive, with one exception:  The Enterprise menu(s).  They would be saved in a location that only the CAD manager would have access to with full control.  That could be your PC or another computer on the peer-ro-peer network like a file server.

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