Import/Export Saved Filters? (Not Layer Filters)

[YZ]

Is it possible to export the filters (saved in the FILTER command) from one machine to another?

 

In fact, they don't even work from one profile to another, on the same machine.

 

I have to keep setting them up for each new user.

 

Just wondering if there is a way to speed it up. They don't come across when doing a migrate setting function from the Windows Start menu.

 

 

This screen shot shows the entities that I am hoping to share.

[Dipali]

Have you checked it thru design centre? It might be available there.

If you are not aware design centre is Ctrl+2 and then you browse the drawing which has saved filters and check if it's listed.

[RobDraw]

I do not see filters in design center.

[YZ]

Good idea, I had never though of checking the Design Centre.

 

However the filters are not there.

 

Rather than being drawing specific, I have found it to be installation specific. And even then if you log in with a different user profile the filters do not carry across.

 

So with only 4 staff working part time on 4 workstations I have to update the filters 16 times every new release of AutoCAD. And I have to manually set up each filter that we use in our standards. Luckily it is only 5 at this stage. But I do want to grow this.

 

So it is 80 filters I have to create and save each year just so our users can keep access to the 5 saved filters that we use. Not that this is a problem. The problem is that I keep finding new users who do not yet have the filters on that workstation, so everything stops for them.

 

Filter is such a powerful command. But I keep being surprised that Autodesk have not allowed it to be shared or controlled with a script.

 

Thanks for your input Dipali and RobDraw.

[steven-g]

YZ take a look for "filter.nfl" in the user-roaming-etc. support path, and see what you can do with it.

[SLW210]

As mentioned, Filter.nfl is where they are stored. Should just copy to each computer, C:\\Users\\users name\\appdata\\roaming\\autodesk\\autocad

20xx\\rxx.x\\enu\\support\\filter.nfl

 

Not sure of anyway to share a single file.

 

No problem here maintaining Named Filters from Profile to Profile, I thought LT didn't have profiles, though.

[YZ]

YZ take a look for "filter.nfl" in the user-roaming-etc. support path, and see what you can do with it.

 

LONG time to reply. Yes,m this works. I found the file, opened it in Sublime Text and it reads just like a script file of each filter.

 

Copying filter.nfl to each user profile does copy the filters to that workstation.

 

I think I'll write a DOS batch file that can copy it to %UserProfile%\AppData\etc.

 

Good call! Thanks!

[YZ]

As mentioned, Filter.nfl is where they are stored. Should just copy to each computer, C:\\Users\\users name\\appdata\\roaming\\autodesk\\autocad

20xx\\rxx.x\\enu\\support\\filter.nfl

 

Not sure of anyway to share a single file.

 

No problem here maintaining Named Filters from Profile to Profile, I thought LT didn't have profiles, though.

 

The profiles I'm talking about are Windows OS Profiles. For when a different staff member sits at the same desk, but logs in with different credentials.

 

After finding the filters.nfl on my user profile today I copied it into the central server where I put my first "File Support Path" in OPTIONS. Previously there was no filters.nfl file on the server.

 

Now it works across all other machines instantly!

 

I think that the reason it was missing is because I started using filters more recently than when I copied the libraries to the server. So it seems that when there is no filter file AutoCAD creates one on the local drive.

 

A dream come true. Thanks for your help everyone.

[Dadgad]

Nicely done steven-g & SLW, got no problems, just solutions!