Mike’s Blog

We are trying to configure Land Desktop 2006 here at work and most things are going smooth but there are a few issues that I just dont understand. A little background, we are an engineering firm that has at least 20 different clients that all have their own cadd standards. We also have about 30 people in 7 offices using Land Desktop. With this being said we are trying to put as much info as we can on the network. Now I know all of you diehard AutoCAD users out there hate the word ‘network’ and feel that everything should be stored local.

First of all the sdsk.dfm file that seems to be the main configuration file for Land Desktop is located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Land Desktop 2006\R16.2\enu\Support\sdsk.dfm

Ok so we copy that to a better location so that the original configuration stays untouched. This path isn’t much better but it is done for other reasons that I will not go into here:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\CAD\AutoCAD\land\sdsk.dfm

Next we have copied the Data folder up to the network into each client so that we can make the appropriate changes per client. This data folder contains all of the styles that are used for the different elements taht are placed inside of Land Desktop and some of them are different for our different clients:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Land Desktop 2006\R16.2\Data
to:
T:\client\ZCommon\Content\LDT\Data

This is gonna be long so please stick with me.
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