Updating a MSCAD2004 AutoMAP library to work in MSCAD2005

By Glen W. Cameron, C.E.T.
Technical Support Manager

To open an AutoMAP Library file from MSCAD2004 into MSCAD2005, the first step is to copy it from the C:\MSCAD2004\MSCAD folder to the C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSURVEY\MSCAD2005\MSCAD folder using Windows Explorer or My Computer.  This way you are not working with the original file so it can still be used, unmodified, with MSCAD2004, if required.

If you jump right into MSCAD2005 and load the AutoMAP Library from MSCAD2004, this is what you are going to need to do and what you will see:

Start the MSCAD2005 program and open a drawing.  Then run the AutoMAP command by going under the MsTraverse menu -> AutoMAP System -> AutoMAP Library.  Then pick on the New Library button to clear the current library – then pick on the Open Library button and choose your Library you copied from MSCAD2004.

When you first load the AutoMAP library created in MSCAD2004 (or any previous version of MSCAD), in MSCAD2005, you will get a message:

This message comes up because MSCAD2004 used FLX files for the drawings of the symbols, and MSCAD2005 does not understand them.  MSCAD2005 uses the industry standard DWG files instead.  This message gives you the ability to have us change all of the FLX references to DWG in the entire Automap library.  (This is a good thing to do but it will not be the only thing you need to do to make your AutoMAP library work in MSCAD2005.)