Preparing your local workspace

BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2018 User's Guide

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Preparing your Meridian local workspace to work with an AutoCAD Civil 3D project involves the following steps.

Before you begin

The WorkSpaceNoUserName registry value in the following key must be set to 1 to prevent appending your user account name in the local workspace path:
```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Client\Settings
```
The Civil3DSyncWorkingFolder registry value in the following key can be set to 1 to synchronize the entire working folder, not just the data shortcuts folder (default):
```
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\AutoCADLink
```

For more information about these settings, see the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide.

To prepare your local workspace:

Identify the folder in the vault that contains the project files that you want to work with or, if necessary, create a new folder as described in Creating a folder.
Right-click the BlueCielo Application Integration icon in the system tray, point to Local Workspace, and then click Open Local Workspace Folder. The folder is opened in Windows Explorer. If the folder does not yet exist, open the vault and open any document from any project. This will automatically create the local workspace folders.
Open the sub-folder that corresponds to the vault that contains the project folder from step 1. The vault name is part of the sub-folder name, which has the form <ServerName>,<VaultName>.
Create a new folder there to synchronize with the project folder in the vault, for example, Civil 3D Projects.
In AutoCAD Civil 3D, set the working folder to the new local workspace folder that you created in step 4.
In AutoCAD Civil 3D, create a new data shortcut folder in the working folder that you set in step 5. It should appear in the Prospector tree.