Overview

Some users may find that their AutoCAD profiles keeps getting overridden by the AutoPLANT profiles. There are two things that the user will need to check, which profile is being pulled up and if the AutoPLANT Modeler pull down menu is loading when not on an AutoPLANT profile (such as loading the <<Unnamed Profile>> or a user created profile)   This TechNote goes over a few helpful tips on working with AutoCAD Profiles.  It first goes on removing the AutoPLANT menu from a profile that it isn't needed for. Then goes over how to force the AutoCAD Icon to load a desired profile. Finally, the TechNote goes over some addition notes on issues that users may experience when working with AutoPLANT Profiles in AutoCAD. 

Steps to Accomplish

A] AutoPLANT menu loads in AutoCAD profile

If the Unnamed Profile or a profile that was created by the user has the AutoPLANT pull down menu and it is not needed, then follow the below steps to remove it.

1. Close all AutoCAD and AutoPLANT applications.

2. Create a Shortcut of AutoCAD and paste it at a location of your preference (for ex: Desktop).

3. Open the AutoCAD shortcut and type "OPTIONS" in command tab or go to "Tools>Options...''

4. Check what the 'Current Profile:' is, and click on Add to List tab.

5. Enter the "Profile name", "Description" as per requirements and click on Apply & Close.

6. Now, click open "Files" tab and if you see the paths,remove the following 4 Support File Search Paths: -

          a) C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\apmenu

          b) C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\icon

          c) C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\support

          d) C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\

Click on Apply and OK tab.

7. Now type "MENULOAD" in the command tab and press Enter.

8. From the Load/Unload Customizations > Select "AT_APLANT_PDW" and Click on Unload > Close .

9. Save and Close the AutoCAD application.

B] Setting the AutoCAD Icon to load specific profiles

Sometimes AutoCAD will keep calling one of the AutoPLANT profiles when attempting to just load plain AutoCAD from the AutoCAD icon. This is because AutoCAD has a tendency to load the last used profile. if the user used AutoPLANT last, then the AutoCAD icon will attempt to load that profile rather than the default AutoCAD one. Follow the below steps to force the AutoCAD Icon to load a default profile. Note that these steps call the Unnamed Profile , which is AutoCAD's default profile, or a user can use any profile they wish for this, but they will need to point to program to the path of the profile's file. It is recommended that the user looks over how the Profiles are called out for the AutoPLANT Icons. They point to paths rather than a Profile name like the below steps do.

10. Right Click on the shortcut of AutoCAD >Go to Properties.

11. Look at the ˜Target:' field, it should contain the path to the acad.exe which will vary depending on what AutoCAD version being used.

12. The Default target should look like this:-  C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2009\acad.exe" 

13. Now at the end of the default target add the following - /p "ACAD"   {i.e.- (space)/p(space)"ACAD"}. The Final Target should look like this - C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2009\acad.exe" /p "ACAD"

14. After adding this, load up AutoCAD, it should now force load the "ACAD" which is AutoCAD's default profile

Other Notes on Profiles in AutoCAD and AutoPLANT V8i

• Always open Plain AutoCAD via the shortcut where the profile has been set and never by Windows Explorer, as it will again revise it back to AutoPLANT Modeler profile.

• Unnamed Profile doesn't load correctly after opening AutoCAD once in AutoPLANT, closing it out and then loading it from AutoCAD icon
  • This was mainly seen in AutoCAD 2009 and only once after changing the icon to point to the Unnamed Profile. To fix it, just manually load the Unnamed Profile from the AutoCAD ‘Options' dialog
• AutoCAD 2009 Ribbons not appearing correctly with AutoPLANT Profile loaded
  • Sometimes, the AutoPLANT Profile has trouble with the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbons. This can be fixed in a few ways. One way to fix it would be to right click on one of the Ribbon tabs and select ‘Minimize>Minimize to Tabs" then do it again and select "Minimize>Show Full Ribbon". Another option would be change the AutoCAD menu to ‘AutoCAD Classic' workspace. To do this, just click the little gear in the bottom right corner of AutoCAD then select the ‘AutoCAD Classic'. This can also be done by going to the Workspaces toolbar and selecting the ‘AutoCAD Classics' option or by going to ‘Tools>AutoCAD Classics'

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