The Copy Settings Wizard saves, restores, and propagates system settings to users, computers, or profiles.
You can launch the Copy Settings Wizard from in the SOLIDWORKS software or click .
Selecting runs the Copy Settings Wizard in
a special mode which allows the SOLIDWORKS software to remain up and running, while
you save or restore your current user settings.
When you select options for the SOLIDWORKS software, those settings are
saved in a registry file, and the software recognizes the settings from one release of
SOLIDWORKS to the next. For most users, no action is necessary to maintain their
settings. However, you can use the Copy Settings Wizard to distribute settings.
You can save or restore system settings for:
- System options
- Toolbar layout (All toolbars or Macro toolbar only)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse gestures
- Menu customization
- Saved views
You save settings to a file and then restore them to the following
registries:
| Profile |
Registry |
| Current user |
CURRENT_USER of current user |
| One or more network computers |
LOCAL_MACHINE of selected computers
|
| One or more roaming user profiles |
CURRENT_USER of selected users
|
Only system administrators should copy settings to network
computers or roaming user profiles. When you restore settings to network computers, the
settings apply to
new SOLIDWORKS users on the specified
computers. You can restore settings to roaming user profiles only if your company uses
roaming user profiles.
To prevent users from changing those
options, you can use the Settings Administrator
Tool to set system options that are applied when deploying or
upgrading the SOLIDWORKS software.
The Settings
Administrator Tool is installed with a SOLIDWORKS administrative
image. You can run the tool from the location where you stored the image. For more
information, see the Installation and Administration
Help.