How do I copy my SolidWorks Profile?

[tluxon]

Our company finally setup our server as a domain server instead of a workgroup "server". Since I created a new profile for logging into my Windows XP Pro PC, all of the settings and preferences in SolidWorks are back at the default. Is there any way to copy my previous customized preferences to the new user?

Thanks,

Tim

 

[murugansubham]

hi tluxon,

before installing,
copy the username.cus file from - old user Installed Directory/SolidWorks/user/username.cus

after new installation just paste this username.cus file to -new user installed directory/SolidWorks/user/

hope this will help u.

Regards,
Murugan.S
Sr. Design Engineer,
CAD CAM Research Center,
GlobalSoft Pvt Ltd,
New Delhi, INDIA.
email: murugan_subham@yahoo.com
Internet:

http://www.globalsoft.co.in

an ISO 9001, TUV Certified Organization

 

[murugansubham]

And refer solidworks help - how to create part, assmebly and drawing templates to maintain the custom settings/option settings for the user machine standard solidworks file.
thanks,

Regards,
Murugan.S
Sr. Design Engineer,
CAD CAM Research Center,
GlobalSoft Pvt Ltd,
New Delhi, INDIA.
email: murugan_subham@yahoo.com
Internet:

http://www.globalsoft.co.in

an ISO 9001, TUV Certified Organization

 

[tluxon]

Thanks for the replies, but that's not exactly what I was looking for. This is a SW installation that has been used for months and all of a sudden I have to change my login to my own computer to be logging into a offsite domain. This creates a new profile, and Windows provides a transfer utility, but it didn't update my SW settings.

In the "..\SolidWorks\setup\i386" folder is a program called "copyoptwiz.exe". It creates a SW .reg file that you can make available to multiple users (including other instances of myself, I presume). However, I haven't been able to get this to save the layout and customizations of my toolbars like I had hoped. Does anybody know how to use this so I can save the settings I have for my old profile, or do I have to pretty much start from scratch?

Thanks,

Tim

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Its amazing what you can find in the FAQ section .... if you look.

Check out faq559-655

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

 

[SBaugh]

Try this one too - faq559-874

Backing up the User Interface Per APPENG's FAQ. I have tried this in the past, and it did work for me once. But after that it didn't. If it fails to work for you, you will have to go into the registry and manually remove the User Interface key folder.

I hope you have better luck than I have had with it in the past.

Regards,


Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[tluxon]

Thanks for the replies, but still not exactly what I was looking for. Actually, I got the copyoptwiz.exe to work correctly the second time around by logging in to the old profile and saving a .reg file and then logging in to the new profile and "sending" it that file to my computer's name on the domain list. You can also find this wizard from the Start Menu at:

Start->Programs->SolidWorks 2004->SolidWorks Tools->Copy Option Wizard.

This seems like a very powerful tool (i.e., use with caution) since it can be used to quickly replicate a SolidWorks environment to any or all users or computers on a domain.

Thanks,

Tim

 

[SBaugh]

The Copy options wizard only copies your System settings nothing else. Unless they changed something, but I don't think so. Your Document Settings are saved per Document template.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376