SubscribeI'm currently in the beautiful garden city of Christchurch, New Zealand on the South Island. I just finished my second stop on the "Making the Move from AutoCAD to Autodesk Inventor" tour. I managed to completely lose my voice from a nasty cold so the poor audiences have had to listen very closely as I whispered and squeeked into a microphone for my presentations. The audiences have been very understanding of my plight (everyone is so very nice out here!). I have had a fabulous time showing off the awesome power of Inventor (5 more cities in Australia to go to next week).
Since I've had both feet in the Autodesk Inventor world for the past week, I thought I would take one foot out temporarily to sling you a tip from the land of Kiwis.
Editing your Aliases
To add or edit the AutoCAD aliases we edit the ACAD.PGP file. When AutoCAD became Microsoft complient, the PGP file ended up being stashed away in one of those buried directories: C:\Documents and Settings\LOGIN NAME\Application Data\autodesk\AutoCAD 2006\R16.2\enu\Support\acad.pgp. Yikes! So many of us turned to the friendly Express Tool "ALIASEDIT" (under Tools=>Command Alias Editor) to edit the PGP file (besides it was friendlier).
But BEWARE oh ye AutoCAD 2004 users! The Express Tool alias editor does not map to the correct path in AutoCAD 2004.
Solution: Use the Program Parameter editor in the Tools pull-down menu (Tools=>Customize=>Edit Program Parameters). This will find the ACAD.PGP file for you so you don't have to hunt through that painful directory structure to find it and you will live happily AutoCAD ever after. It's not as user friendly as the Express Tool - but it gets the job done.
I'm off to find a Kiwi!