Accessing AutoCAD Support Files in BricsCAD Video Lecture | An Ultimate Guide: BricsCAD:Interface and Customization - 3D & Animation

welcome to customizing bricscad my name
is Ralph Garbowsky and it's my pleasure
to show you how to make bricks at work
the way you work
bricscad has a number of folders in
which it stores support files such as
those needed for fonts and line types
and it finds those support files by
consulting paths to the folders path
specifies the name of the drive and the
folder such as C backslash colon
bricscad now there's several reasons why
you may want to change the file paths
that bricscad uses for example the firm
has clients with different standards for
fonts and layers and so on or you're a
third party developer and need to have
paths pointing to different files
another reason might be you import
drawings from other CAD packages you
need to map different sets of fonts via
faut map files so example line types are
added through a line type file and click
the load button and it comes up with
this dialog box for loading files in the
default folder that holds the line type
definitions now you could go and click
here and then you can see these are the
ones for bricks s but what if you want
the ones say from AutoCAD or a specific
client that's not easy to navigate
there's a lot of folders there so I'm
going to show you how to use the
settings command to redirect the support
folder
to modify the paths I'm gonna go into
the settings dialog box so from the menu
bar click settings settings again and
the files are located in the program
options section open up the files node
and here we are and you can see that
there's all kinds of paths that bricscad
uses let me go through them this is the
support files and those are things like
fonts and plugins and blind types and so
on that's the one we're gonna be working
with into for the moments the other ones
are more ones that bricscad uses for its
own purposes such as where to save
backup files where to keep temporary
files from shabbu where to cache image
files and and so on
so let's go back to the support search
file you can see there's some several
paths there and each one is separated by
a semicolon that saw Brooke scab knows
one file path ends and the next one
starts and it looks like a confusing
mess hard to edit but that's really not
a problem so what you do is you go over
here at the end click on this button
with the three dots and up pops a dialog
box that lists them nicely in order now
if you want to add a file path to this
list you click on this new button and
there's this blank line how do you fill
that in well you click once again this
button and then it prompts you to choose
a folder now previously I went to this
particular folder which is where
Autodesk keeps its sheet steps I really
don't want to be there I want to go to
this support folder and selected it and
now let's add it to the list click OK
and bricscad old faces it to let you
know that it's changed you can click the
red X and there we go
now on the other side of the next title
I'm going to show you how this affects
the line type
let's see now how changing the path
effects we're bricscad looks for support
files I'm going to go into line types lo
the line type and you can see that it's
opened up into directly to where AutoCAD
line types are kept now I'll show you
the path here you can see Autodesk
AutoCAD support and there's the layer
AutoCAD line type file right there so
I'll click open and we can see that once
again it's loaded the ones from Autodesk
AutoCAD and there's the AutoCAD line
type definition so that's what's useful
about being able to modify support file
paths to learn more about this and it's
a fairly in-depth topic read the
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