New instance of AutoCAD opening

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by MarkW3, Sep 15, 2015.

  1. MarkW3

    MarkW3 Bit poster

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    Can anyone advise me on the following problem that I have been having since upgrading to version 11?

    When clicking to open a CAD drawing in Finder it opens a new instance of AutoCAD. I have followed the recommendation (found online) to associate AutoCAD with the Autodesk Launcher, and when opened in a Windows Explorer window it works fine, but not when using the OS X Finder interface (which when using coherence mode is obviously what I need to do). Also the file's icon in OS X finder is blank. It's getting a bit annoying, so any advice would be warmly welcomed.

    I have tried to associate the DWG files with Autodesk Launcher in OS X, but the .exe is greyed out. They are currently associated with the AutoCAD.exe file and I think that's the problem.

    Always worked fine in the past :(

    Thanks.
     
  2. Jigs Gaton

    Jigs Gaton Product Expert

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    Just a guess here, but the association that you are looking for is not in the OSX root\Applications\folder. If you want to open the file in Windows, you would have to associate the filetype to the app shortcut found in \user\Applications (Parallels)\Autodesk Launcher (or whatever it's called there). Hope that helps!
     

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