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Per User Workspace Catalog and Shared Workspace Catalog
The CAD manager can decide whether to create a group of tools and palettes
that are shared by all users of a project and accessed from a single location,
or to define a project catalog and Content Browser library, and maybe create
a starter set of palettes for copying to individual users’ computers. For more
information, see Before You Begin: Working in a Network Environment on
page 302.
AutoCAD Architecture loads the tool palettes found in the paths specified in
the Files tab of the Options dialog box. Projects allow you to specify an
additional location path for a tool palettes file that contains project-specific
tool palettes. This path is appended to the current profile when the project is
made current, and removed when the project is closed or when another project
is set current.
Projects support two workflows for working with project palettes:
Per user workspace catalog: This the recommended option. Use the Per user
workspace catalog option in conjunction with project tool catalogs in Content
Browser. In this mode, users can access the tools and tool palettes they need
for the job from tool catalogs in Content Browser on a per-user basis. By
utilizing the refresh/linking behavior of Content Browser, you can make
changes to the original tools and tool palettes in project catalogs, and your
team can refresh their tools and palettes to get the latest versions. Thus, each
user’ s workspace is maintained by the application uniquely, but linked palettes
allow for global updates.
You can optionally provide your project team with a starter set of tool palettes,
including the initial layout and tool ordering. To do this, you would create
the project palettes in your own workspace, and then use Windows Explorer
to copy the files to the location specified for the tool palette file location in
the project properties. For detailed instructions, see the workflow examples
below.
Shared workspace catalog: This option is recommended if you wish to mandate
a set collection of project tool palettes for everyone on the project. In this case
you do not want users going to Content Browser to customize project tools
or tool palettes. To create a shared workspace, you specify a shared network
location and assign it to the tool palette file location of the project. As this
path will be appended to every project team member’ s profile when the project
is set current, the path should be read-only. Otherwise changes made by one
user would affect every user, and the last change would be the final form of
the tool.
Setting up Standard Tools in a Project | 609
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