The tasks that CAD administrators are often responsible for are driven by the size and organization of the company.
The following table lists many of the installation, customization, and programming tasks that are related to the product and those that are commonly performed by a CAD administrator.
| Installing | Customizing | Programming | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installation | |||
| Product installation | ✓ | ||
| License activation | ✓ | ||
| Migrate and transfer custom settings | ✓ | ||
| Basic | |||
| Layers and layer states | ✓ | ||
| Text styles | ✓ | ||
| Dimension styles | ✓ | ||
| Multileader styles | ✓ | ||
| Table styles | ✓ | ||
| Multiline styles | ✓ | ||
| Blocks and block libraries | ✓ | ||
| Drawing template files | ✓ | ||
| Page Setups | ✓ | ||
| Plot styles | ✓ | ||
| Printers and plotters | ✓ | ||
| User profiles | ✓ | ||
| Workspaces | ✓ | ||
| Desktop shortcuts | ✓ | ||
| Command aliases | ✓ | ||
| Tool palettes | ✓ | ||
| Intermediate | |||
| Materials and visual styles | ✓ | ||
| CAD standards | ✓ | ||
| Scripts | ✓ | ||
| User interface (CUI Editor) | ✓ | ||
| Dynamic blocks | ✓ | ||
| Action macros | ✓ | ||
| DIESEL | ✓ | ||
| Custom linetypes and hatch patterns | ✓ | ||
| Custom shapes and text styles | ✓ | ||
| Publish to Web templates | ✓ | ||
| Slides | ✓ | ||
| Advanced | |||
| AutoLISP / Visual LISP | ✓ | ||
| Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) | ✓ | ||
| ActiveX / COM (VBA, VBScript, VB.NET, C#, C++) | ✓ | ||
| Managed .NET (VB.NET, C#) | |||
| ObjectARX (C++) | |||
| JavaScript (JS) | |||
| Database connectivity (CAO) | |||
| Sheet Set Manager API (SSO) | |||
| Custom CAD Standards plug-ins (CSP) | |||
| Transmittal API (ATO) | |||
| Plug-in bundles | ✓ | ||
| Autodesk Forge Platform | |||