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Instead of typing menu inside the cad environment and wait to load a specific cui layout, can i include this information on a shortcut somehow and have the appropriate cuiload by double clicking the shortcut?

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Nope i've been having a problem with a software called Carlson, that has its own menus, and when you launch it, it takes over, and then even launching plain Autocad still launches carlson menus and takes a hell of a time to load. And i have to type menu and load that acad.cui

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Nope i've been having a problem with a software called Carlson, that has its own menus, and when you launch it, it takes over, and then even launching plain Autocad still launches carlson menus and takes a hell of a time to load. And i have to type menu and load that acad.cui

 

Are you sure you started with a workspace with all the Carlson stuff removed? I would have expected that to work.

Try starting with a profile that has all paths for Carlson removed along with the non-Carlson workspace.

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Your shortcut is set to a profile.

I got a custom profile that uses a 'Main enterprise'.

This enterprice has the default ACAD.CUIX and my custom CUI as 'partialy loaded' files in them.

that way i always have my custom CUIX, but still have the latast version of a ACAD.CUIX.

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Right click on your shortcut and look at the target. Add the path and profile name and if you want a certain workspace to load, you can add that too.

 

Example:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2016\acad.exe" /p j:\cbicad\acad\CSA\A2k16\CSA.arg /w MyCSA /nologo

 

CSA.arg is the profile

MyCSA is the workspace

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Nope i've been having a problem with a software called Carlson, that has its own menus, and when you launch it, it takes over, and then even launching plain Autocad still launches carlson menus and takes a hell of a time to load. And i have to type menu and load that acad.cui

 

Carlson creates a profile. It's .EXE launches AutoCAD with this profile.

From this point on, when you launch AutoCAD using the plain AutoCAD icon, it launches using the last used profile.

So what you need to do is edit your AutoCAD icon to use the profile that you want to use, instead of the Carlson profile.

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Instead of typing menu inside the cad environment and wait to load a specific cui layout, can i include this information on a shortcut somehow and have the appropriate cuiload by double clicking the shortcut?

 

Reading your post again yes you can include this information on a shortcut and have the appropriate Profile and Workspace loaded by double clicking the shortcut. Make sure there are not any /b scripts or /ld ARX or DBX applications referencing Carlson in the shortcut.

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edit your AutoCAD icon

 

Copy your desktop Autocad Icon and change properties much safer, just end up with a couple of icons that will start Autocad.

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Carlson creates a profile. It's .EXE launches AutoCAD with this profile.

From this point on, when you launch AutoCAD using the plain AutoCAD icon, it launches using the last used profile.

So what you need to do is edit your AutoCAD icon to use the profile that you want to use, instead of the Carlson profile.

 

And where are that profiles located? Which one is the autocad and which the carlson profile, so i can reference to each their own

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Right click on icon and look at properties

 

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013\acad.exe" /P >

 

The /p refers to the profile to be loaded, hence copy the icon and edit the profile name to correct one eg /p Autocad

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