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Smooth migration

Smooth migration - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Smooth migration

- You'll notice when you migrate any custom settings that you've got set in your previous versions of AutoCAD, when you're upgrading to AutoCAD 2017, that there is a really nice new funky Migrate Custom Settings screen. And you'll notice there that it's very visual. It's nice and easy to understand what's going on, and they've broken it down into Interface, Settings, and Content. And you can use the Select All or Clear All buttons. You can just tick the boxes, so you might not want shapes to go through, so you un-tick, it blanks out, tick it again, it highlights and so on and so forth. Now, obviously it's the standard type of stuff that you will migrate across from your older versions of AutoCAD. Things like user profiles, the CUI, the tool palettes, plot files, templates, and so on. And you can see that that is all clearly marked in your migrate custom settings screen. And obviously you can migrate the settings and files from a previous release up here. So you'll notice that's…

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