Using Shortcuts or Links to plotters & styles

Good Morning,

Spec. Autocad Versions: ADT 3.3, Autocad 2002
Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

We have a lot of different pc3 and ctb files. We thought we would make
levels of importance or use for individuals. Level 1 being for light users,
Level 2 for medium users and so on. But a concern was if a pc3 file was
changed we would have to copy the pc3 file in the appropriate folders, so we
came up with making links or shortcuts and placing these in the Level
directories. Here is were the problem comes in, on the machines with OS
under XP the links or shortcuts show up as DOS format files. Example:
1234~678.pc3 or 1234~678.ctb. But on the machines with XP they look just
fine. Anyone know of a setting in autocad or in the OS to view the full
filename?

Thanks,
Rick

 

I've created shortcuts to the folders where the PC3 & CTB files reside on
our network. you could break up your PC3s & CTB into different folders and
have the shortcut point to that folder. it works well in our environment and
any changes required are done on the network, not on the workstation.
(except the initial copying of the folder shortcut to the local C)

 

Check under Tools, Options, System Tab
and check the "Allow long symbol names".
I don't know if that is whats wrong but my shortcuts show up just fine in A2000i, Windows 2K