On the Select Installation Folders for
Support Content page, you choose where your support content gets
installed by specifying a folder other than the default user profile
folder used in previous releases. As a network administrator, these
options give you greater control over where you place support content
during installations or deployments.
Support files consist
of six main types:
- Support - Includes customization/menu
files, palette content and hatch and linetypes.
- Plotters - Includes plot styles (.ctb files),
and plot configuration files (.pc3 and .pmp files).
- Data Links - Contains data links files.
- Template - Includes drawing and Sheet
Set templates, and Publish to Web templates.
- Rendering - Includes hardware certification
information, and Web Light files.
- Help - Includes User’s Guide, Command
Reference, New Features Workshop, and various guides and learning
resources.
Among the four options
available, you can choose a single shared location, local or network,
where all your support content is installed. The illustration and
table below outline the other available options.
There are four support
content folder options:
| Options |
Notes |
| Local user profile folders |
- Texture maps installed to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
- All other content installed to %USERPROFILE%\Roaming
AppData
- No content stored in %USERPROFILE%\Local
AppData
|
| Program install folder |
- All content is installed to the AutoCAD installation
folder on individual user station
- User may need power user privilege to
install AutoCAD
- User may need power user privilege to
run AutoCAD on a system where support content is installed to
the OS Program Files folder
|
| Single shared folder |
- Allows for a unique network path to be
specified for all content types
- Subfolders for content types installed
within this location
- When a deployment is pushed to individual
workstations, content is copied into the network location only once
when the deployment is created
|
| Custom folders |
- Allows a unique path to be specified
for different content types
- Supports local folders and UNC or mapped
network paths
|
An Overwrite Existing
Files in Shared Network Folders check box is available when either
the Single Shared folder or Custom folder options is selected. If the
box is checked, the existing files in the chosen folder are overwritten.
No additional warning is given. If the box is unchecked, a warning
message is displayed.
