Starting Carlson with AutoCAD or IntelliCAD
To start Carlson, use the icon which was created on your desktop
and in Carlson submenu under Start > Programs (or All Programs).
When you do so, CAD engine associated with Carlson is started with
a customized profile, which contains all of the setting changes
necessary to run Carlson. This profile prevents harmful conflicts
between Carlson and other CAD based products. The changes in menus,
toolbars and preferences will be saved in that profile for further
use. The CAD engine associated with Carlson is selected during the
installation of Carlson.
Custom Template Profile Name
The company with the internal CAD profile setup can specify the
desired profile name to be used as a template for setting up
Carlson 2022. The existing template will be copied and new profile
for Carlson 2022 will be created, changing minimal number of
settings required to run Carlson. As a result, most of the profile
will match company setup and no further customization will be
necessary.
Additionally, there is a way to specify the template as a property
of the shortcut starting the program. Under the Target setting in
the Windows Properties for the desktop shortcut, add
TEMPLATE=tempatename.dwt to the list arguments.
Specifying which AutoCAD product is used to start the
program
As already mentioned, in case when there are several
AutoCAD vertical products installed for the same version of
AutoCAD, user can configure which AutoCAD product is used with
Carlson. However, in some cases, like having to switch between
AutoCAD products based on availability of the network licenses, it
may be more convenient to control this with the use of different
shortcuts rather than with the program setting. Under the Target
setting in the Windows Properties for the desktop shortcut, add
ENGINE=engine_name to the list arguments. For example for AutoCAD
2019, engine name is ACAD-2001:409 and for Civil 3D 2019 is is
ACAD-2000:409. These values change often with new releases of
AutoCAD and it is best to look them up in the scjstart.ini located
in the same folder as scjstart.exe pointed by the shortcut. This
file will contain the value for AutoCAD product currently
configured to start with Carlson.
Startup Module
The Carlson module that is loaded when the program is started is
set by the desktop icon. The Carlson install program creates
different desktop icons depending on how many modules are licensed
in your serial number. Under the Target setting in the Windows
Properties for the desktop icons, the SCSTATE setting controls the
startup module as follows:
SCSTATE=1 Survey
SCSTATE=2 Civil
SCSTATE=3 Geology
SCSTATE=4 Hydrology
SCSTATE=5 Underground Mining
SCSTATE=6 Surface Mining
SCSTATE=7 GIS
SCSTATE=8 Field
SCSTATE=9 Construction
SCSTATE=10 Point Cloud
SCSTATE=11 GeoTech
SCSTATE=13 Trench
SCSTATE=14 Natural Regrade
SCSTATE=15 CADNet
SCSTATE=17 Civil Suite (any module Survey, Civil,
GIS, Hydrology depending on last loaded)
SCSTATE=18 Mining (any module Geology, Surface or
Underground depending on last loaded)