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We have just switched to Carlson Survey 2007 for Acad. We are setting
everything up and cannot find where to set the path for the symbol
library... We have a a folder on our server with all our our
symbols/blocks and want Carlson to look there for it's symbols. Can anyone
help? TIA


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Settings>Edit Symbol Library>Import Symbols

"VWandyN" <andy@clarklandsurveying.com> wrote in message
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We have just switched to Carlson Survey 2007 for Acad. We are setting
everything up and cannot find where to set the path for the symbol
library... We have a a folder on our server with all our our
symbols/blocks and want Carlson to look there for it's symbols. Can anyone
help? TIA


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Ran wrote:

Settings>Edit Symbol Library>Import Symbols

That imports symbols. What if I change a symbol or add a new one. I have
to go to each computer and import that symbol. Whereas if you point
carlson to a folder to look for symbols everyone's computer will see the
same symbols... LDT did it this way, is it possible in Carlson 2007?


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VWandyN said the following On 2/16/2007 9:54 AM:

We have just switched to Carlson Survey 2007 for Acad. We are setting
everything up and cannot find where to set the path for the symbol
library... We have a a folder on our server with all our our
symbols/blocks and want Carlson to look there for it's symbols. Can anyone
help? TIA

Set up one machine by importing the centrally located symbols into the
symbol manager. (Don't use drive letters, use full UNC paths) When you
are satisfied with this setup, find the "symbols.dta" file on that machine.

Copy this file to a central network location that is read-only for
normal users.

In your "acad.lsp" file, create a function to copy this file from the
network to the local machine at ACAD startup. (Or if you don't think you
will change it often, you could just copy it around manually)

Now everyone is using the same "symbols.dta" file.

IIRC - it won't do any good to add a support file search path (SFSP)
pointing to the network location (to try and avoid the copying of the
file), because Carlson is hardcoded to look for "symbols.dta" in a
single location -- something that we have asked to be changed. There is
no reason that Carlson couldn't search the SFSP for this file like
AutoCAD does for all files.




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