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AutoCAD Based Launching HydraCAD (Ribbon/Toolbar/Location)

Description:

Unable to find Default Profile:


The profile specified as the default AutoCAD profile does not exist.  Open AutoCAD, go to Options...  <<Unnamed Profile>>...

Solutions:

Cause:

1. Profile recorded as the (Default) is missing


2. Bad registry entry

Solution:

1. Open AutoCAD, go to Tools|Options and select the PROFILES tab.  Create a new profile called;
<<Unnamed Profile>>, (include all < & > signs), make it current and delete the other profiles listed.  Click OK and close Acad.  Continue with the install.

-or-

Use REGEDIT to steer down to the folder seen in the image at left in the CAUSE screen. If <<Unnamed Profile>> exists in the branch below Profiles, right-click on is to Rename and hit CTRL+C to Copy the name. Then, go up to Profiles key itself, double-click on the (Default) key and paste the <<Unnamed Profile>> in there. Continue with the install.

 

2. The Acad installation created an empty folder of PROFILE names.  
Using REGEDIT, go to…
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R21.0
Under the key you'll likely see two sub folders;

\ACAD-E001
\ACAD-0001:409  

E001 *should* only have one folder called 'INSTALL', yet on a computer with this error, there was also a folder called 'PROFILES', which was empty.  
Under E001-409 there should be **many** folders including PROFILES.   If this is the case, delete the **empty** PROFILES folder in E-001 then restart the installation;

\ACAD-E001\*~~PROFILES~~*

Updated: May 20, 2024, 3:20 p.m. Created: Feb. 12, 2020, 7:07 p.m.