My CAD is opening to the wrong templates and I can't switch it back.

[Greg99]

Hi, this is my first post, thank you for your help! I’m a student in a land surveying program, running AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. From the beginning of my course I’ve had CAD opening to my template; from the options, under the file tab, then template settings, I set all four of the subcategories to my template and the appropriate folders. My template is set with an engineering drawing scale. A couple weeks ago, I fired up CAD and it opened to a different template where it’s using an architectural scale. I checked my template settings in the options and they are the same. I closed CAD, reopened it, and have gotten the same result since then. When I open my drawings that I’ve been working on the scale goes back to engineering or if I manually open my template, it is an engineering scale as well. Is there another area that controls how CAD opens besides the options for templates settings? I really don’t understand how that could have been changed in the first place since we have always used our templates from the first week of class.

Thanks,

Greg

[rkent]

Go to your desktop shortcut icon for AutoCAD, right click, properties, Shortcut tab, look at the Target line, towards the right side there may be a "p/ xyzabc", that is the profile name set to use for that shortcut, change that to your profile name or make a copy of the shortcut and then edit.

[Greg99]

rkent, thank you for your reply. The computer I use is in a lab classroom so many different people log onto it but I think that when I log on, it already sets the computer to my profile. Here's what my "target" line says though:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /p ">"

 

So, are you suggesting?

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /p/greg99 ">"

I'll look into getting an IT staff member to change this because only an administrator is able to do so.

Thanks again for your help,

Greg99

[rkent]

rkent, thank you for your reply. The computer I use is in a lab classroom so many different people log onto it but I think that when I log on, it already sets the computer to my profile. Here's what my "target" line says though:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /p ">"

 

So, are you suggesting?

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /p/greg99 ">"

I'll look into getting an IT staff member to change this because only an administrator is able to do so.

Thanks again for your help,

Greg99

 

This instead....

 

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /p greg99

 

You may not want to change this considering the multiple users there, it may mess everyone else up.