What's the difference between ATC & XPG files

[alijahed]

Hi All,

 

I'm working on a kind of managing our systems in our office, so lot's of question coming through, instead put all of them together would prefer separate them.

 

I'm trying to share the tool palette that I made on my computer which is running on Autocad 2010 on others which they are running on LT.

 

I copied all the Tool Palette files (ATC files) on the server and on Tools>Options>Files>Tool Palette locations address all the CAD stations to that folder.

 

questions:

1. The Palette groups that I made on my computer doesn't display on other CAD stations! what I have on others is All the Palettes as tabs on the Tool Palettes. How can I fix that(bring back the groups)?
   
2. As you know we can import ans export Palettes from Tool Palettes, what I've noticed, the file format in that case is different (XPG)! what's the difference between them(ATC & XPG)?

Cheers

 

Ali

[alanjt]

.atc: Tool Palette files

.xpg: Exported Tool Palette groups

[alijahed]

.atc: Tool Palette files

.xpg: Exported Tool Palette groups

 

Thanks for your reply,

 

the problem is, I wanna have a system in the background which once I update it, automatically implemented on the other computers. The xpg file works probably but I have to ask people to import it once I make changes on the Tool Palettes.

 

Cheers

 

Ali

[Jyoung]

If you don't make the palette files read only on the network location, the will immediately get overwritten the next time a user starts or exits autocad.

 

Update your palette files and immediately make them read only.

 

If you don't, you will have this frustration of users not being able to see the new tools etc as I believe it overwrites the network files from their palette files on their local machines (as found in the %appdata% autodesk folders.

 

Sorry to necro this old post but it still comes up in Google search for this problem and after figuring it out for myself... well here I am.

Edited December 10, 2020 by Jyoung