AutoCAD 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 Setting Default Save Format By Registry

We have come into an issue recently that new deployments of AutoCAD LT needed to be set to save as the 2007 format by default.

Unfortunately I was unable to find much information pertaining to ACAD LT for this issue, but was able to use a blog post on changing the old AutoCAD settings and used that as a spring board for solving my issue.

AutoCAD Post can be found HERE

Our versions of LT range from 2010 to 2014 and so far I have only nailed down the 2014 LT path, but will work on the others and post them as well.

I focused on mapping the following formats and their respective  hexadecimal codes in the registry:

2013 DWG = 0000003c
2010 DWG = 00000030
2007 DWG = 00000024
2004 DWG = 00000018
2000 DWG = 0000000c

For ACAD LT 2014 the path is located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT\R20\ACADLT-D001:409\Profiles\<<Unnamed Profile>>\General

If importing into the registry here is the line for the save attribute

"DefaultFormatForSave"=dword:00000024

This one is set for 2007.

Let me know if you have any questions and ill try to help out.


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EDIT : Adding ACAD LT 2013 Path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT\R18\ACADLT-B001:409\Profiles\<<Unnamed Profile>>\General

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EDIT : Adding ACAD LT 2012 Path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT\R17\ACADLT-A001:409\Profiles\<<Unnamed Profile>>\General

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EDIT : Adding ACAD LT 2011 Path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD LT\R16\ACADLT-9001:409\Profiles\<<Unnamed Profile>>\General