Prepare Your Local Workspace

Preparing your Meridian local workspace to work with an AutoCAD Civil 3D project involves the following steps.

• The WorkSpaceNoUserName registry value in the following key must be set to 1 to prevent appending your user account name in the local workspace path:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Client\Settings

• The following settings can be configured to control working folder synchronization:

  • Civil3DHideWCDialog to automatically create working copies of data shortcuts and not prompt users to select them.

  • Civil3DSyncWorkingFolder to synchronize the entire working folder, not just the data shortcuts folder (default)

  • Civil3DSyncType to control automatic synchronization of the working folder

  • ReleaseNewCivil3DDataShortcuts to allow the release of Civil 3D data shortcuts from their workflows when they are imported to the vault by working folder synchronization

  The following locations will be searched for these settings in the order listed and the value of the first location where it is found will be applied:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\AutocadLink (affects all users of the PC)

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\AutocadLink (affects only the current user of the PC)

  • The [Civil_3D] section on the AutoCAD tab of the Application Link Settings in the Environment branch of the vault configuration (affects all users of the vault)

To prepare your local workspace:

1. Identify the folder in the vault that contains the project files that you want to work with or, if necessary, create a new folder as described in Creating a folder.

2. Right-click the Accruent Application Integration icon in the system tray, point to Local Workspace, and then click Open Local Workspace Folder.

   The folder is opened in Windows Explorer. If the folder does not yet exist, open the vault and open any document from any project. This will automatically create the local workspace folders.

3. Open the sub-folder that corresponds to the vault that contains the project folder from step 1.

   The vault name is part of the sub-folder name, which has the form <ServerName>,<VaultName>.

4. Create a new folder there to synchronize with the project folder in the vault, for example, Civil 3D Projects.

5. In AutoCAD Civil 3D, set the working folder to the new local workspace folder that you created in step 4.

6. In AutoCAD Civil 3D, create a new data shortcut folder in the working folder that you set in step 5.

   It should appear in the Prospector tree.