February 2008 Archives

All interiorcad installers install interiorcad completely. There's no need to install a previous version first. It is strongly recommended to install it on top of a plain vanilla VectorWorks 2008 installation though

If you want to install an interiorcad 2008 update on top of an existing interiorcad 2008 installation, please do the following steps before running the installer:

• Visit the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder
  
• Locate and open the folder "Plug-Ins". Locate and remove the folder "xg". This will wipe out all interiorcad 2008 plug-ins. Do not simply rename this folder as VectorWorks 2008 will scan all plug-in folders recursively.
  
• In the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder, remove the folder called "interiorcad". This will not affect any of your personal settings. It's simply a template folder.
  
• In the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder, locate and open the folder "Templates". Remove the "interiorcad (Imperial).sta" resp. "interiorcad (Metric).sta" files.
  

You can now run the installer which will recreate the files and folders you just deleted. Due to files and settings in your user folder, you will still get dated template, workspace and interiorcad configuration files. If you want to benefit from all the fixes the update provides, do the following additional steps:

• Visit the VectorWorks 2008 app data folder. The path differs depending on the platform:
  • Mac OS X: /Users/Your Username/Library/Application Support/VectorWorks/2008/
  • Windows Vista: C:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\VectorWorks\2008\
  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername\AppData\Nemetschek\VectorWorks\2008\
• To get the updated template files, backup the folder "Templates" and rename it as "Templates old"
• To get the updated workspaces, backup the folder "Workspaces" and rename it as "Workspaces old"
• To get the updated interiorcad database, backup the folder "xg" and rename it as "xg old"

Now start VectorWorks 2008. We hope you enjoy the interiorcad update!

Since interiorcad 2008, the location and configuration of the XG Resources and Data folders (which contain all of your interiorcad settings) have changed.

• In the folder where interiorcad 2008 got installed, you'll find a folder called "interiorcad". It contains a folder called "xg" which contains two folders called "Data" and "XG Resources". Additionally, there's a file called "XGResourcePath.txt":

  

  Unlike interiorcad 3.x, the folder "Plug-Ins" does not contain a folder called "XG Resources".
  

• To fully support the user concepts of modern operating systems, none of those folders gets used while running interiorcad 2008. Instead the complete folder "xg" gets copied to the user folder of your operating system at the very first attempt to use an interiorcad 2008 plug-in:

  

• If you need to adjust interiorcad 2008 settings, do not edit files in the application folder but the files in your user folder exclusively.
  
• The paths to your user data depends on your operating system and user name. If your user name is foo, you should find the user folder in the following locations (Windows and Mac OS X):
  
  
  
  • c:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\VectorWorks\2008\xg\
    
  • HardDriveName:Users:foo:Library:Application Support:VectorWorks:2008:xg:
    
  
  
• The file "XG ResourcePath.txt" contains the path to your configuration files. Simply open it in a text editor. It contains two entries, containing a variable to automatically determine your user folder:
  
  
  
  • ResourcePath:%APPDATA%/xg/XG Resources
    
  • DataPath:%APPDATA%/xg/Data
    
  
  If you want to share the "XG Resources" over a network, move them from your user directory to a fileserver. Leave the folder "Data" locally, as it contains machine dependent settings. Adjust the "ResourcePath" in the file "XG ResourcePath.txt" accordingly:
  
  
  
  • ResourcePath:\\Filesever\XG Resources\
    
  • DataPath:%APPDATA%/xg/Data
    
  
  If you have mounted the network share as a drive letter in Windows, you also can configure it from within interiorcad. In the menu "Workshop" point to "Preferences" and select the entry "Preferences Shop...". On the tab "Preferences" choose the desired drive and folder.
  
• If you have more than one user configured on the machine and all users shall access the shared files, configure each user folder accordingly.
  

Please note that you do this at your own risk. Due to the many dependencies we cannot support installations which make use of the above hints, except extragroup configured your machines. if you get the following message, it is likely that your installation is messed:

Please check the folder "xg" in your user folder and the contents of the file named "XGResourcePath.txt".