The
SOLIDWORKS
Settings Wizard saves, restores, and propagates system settings to users, computers, or
profiles.
You can start the SOLIDWORKS Settings Wizard from in SOLIDWORKS or, from the Windows
Start menu, click .
Selecting runs the SOLIDWORKS Settings
Wizard in a special mode that allows SOLIDWORKS to remain up and
running, while you save or restore your current user settings.
When you select options for SOLIDWORKS, those settings are saved in a registry
file, and SOLIDWORKS recognizes the settings from one release to the next. For most
users, no action is
required
to maintain their settings. However, you can use the SOLIDWORKS 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 the
settings to a file and then restore
the
settings
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
SOLIDWORKS.
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 Installation
and Administration Help.