An Alternate Method for Saving/Restoring Workspaces

There are times when exporting and importing workspaces seems not to work. The following steps explain another way to save your customized workspace so you can restore it after updating your HydraCAD.

1. Open HydraCAD, set up your workspace as you like
2. From the AutoCAD workspace tool select Tools->Workspaces->Save current as
3. Give the workspace a name (ex. Joe)
4. Close HydraCAD
5. Open windows explorer and browse to C:\HES\HydraCAD\Ver50\Programs\50.1, 50.2 or 50.3 folder (depending on your version)
6. Locate and copy the Hcadwin.cuix file to this same folder and then rename it (i.e. Myhcadwin.cuix)
7. Run the HydraCAD update
8. Open HydraCAD
9. Type CUI at the command line
10. Pick the Transfer tab
11. From the customizations in new file screen (right side) pick the folder icon (open customization file)
12. Browse to the 50.1, 50.2 or 50.3 folder (as before) and select the Myhcadwin.cuix file you created and pick 'Open'
13. From the customizations in new file screen (right side) select the workspace named Joe and drag and drop it to the workspace category in the customizations in main file screen (left side)
14. Right click on the Joe workspace that you just dropped (left side) and select 'Current', Right click the Joe workspace again and select 'Set Default'
15. Pick 'apply and OK

Your customized workspace should now be present.

Comments

[George Ali Blackburn]

In more recent releases of the HydraCAD updates, you can skip steps 5 & 6 above as the update will automatically create a backup folder where you will find the HCADWIN.CUIX and your newly saved workspace (Step 12).

You'll be able to find it in the;

for AutoCAD 2013 & 2014
"C:\HES\HydraCAD\Ver50\Programs\50.3\Backup"
or
for AutoCAD 2015
"C:\HES\HydraCAD\Ver50\Programs\Version53\Backup"