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Land Desktop Data Folder

The Data folder contains required files for using Autodesk Land Desktop. It is recommended
to store this folder and all its subfolders on a network location to be shared by all users.
This folder contains:
 Drawing Templates (DWT)
 Contour Styles (contours)
 Format Manger (format manager)
 Hydraulic IDF files (hd)
 Label Styles (labels)
 Pipe Data (pipeworks)
 User Desktop Preferences (pref)
 Project Prototypes (Prototypes)
 Report Files (Reports)
 Drawing Setup files/Text Sets (setup)
 Sheet Manager Sheets (sheets)
 LandXML Style Sheets (SPData)
 Survey Settings (Survey)
 Symbols (Symbol Manager)
 Cross Section Templates (tplates)

Table 3 shows the user preferences and their corresponding path to be mapped.

Table 3

User Preference Path to Server Description


Drawing Templates …\LDTdata\DWT Set using ACAD options
Contours Styles …\LDTdata\contours
Cross Section Templates …\LDTdata\tplates
Drawing Setup Borders …\LDTdata\DWT\borders
Drawing Setup Files …\LDTdata\setup
Import/Export Formats …\LDTdata\format manager
Label Styles …\LDTdata\labels
Menu Palette Path (user defined)
Project Prototypes …\LDTdata\Prototypes
Sheet Manager Templates …\LDTdata\sheets

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Speed Tables …\LDTdata\SpeedTables
Survey Data Files …\LDTdata\Survey
Symbol Manager …\LDTdata\Symbol Manager
Temporary Files …\Temp Temp Folder

Drawing Templates

The drawing templates used in Land Desktop set up the drawing with layers, dimension
styles, environment variables and many other AutoCAD settings. Refer to the Layer section
of this document for drawing layer conventions.
There are eight drawing templates provided for use.
 Company Design Imperial
 Company Design Metric
 Company Survey Imperial
 Company Survey Metric
 NCS Design Imperial
 NCS Design Metric
 NCS Survey Imperial
 NCS Survey Metric

System Variables set in templates

Company Templates

MEASUREMENT – METRIC = 1 – IMPERIAL = 0


UCSICON = 1
UCS to WORLD
INSBASE = 0,0,0
GRIDMODE = 0
ISAVEPERCENT = 0
LIMCHECK = 0
CECOLOR to BYLAYER
CELTYPE to BYLAYER
CELWEIGHT to BYLAYER (-1)
PDMODE = 34
PDSIZE = 0.5
QTEXTMODE = 0

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