Specifications

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Network Content
In addition to searching content on your local computer, Content Explorer can also search one or more
network computers. However, it requires the Content Service to run on the network computers and build
an index on that machine. This provides a single index that all clients can access and search. Therefore, in
order to support searching on network drives, software needs to be installed separately on the network
computer. This software, called Autodesk Content Service, is available from your AutoCAD 2012
installer under Tools and Utilities. Make sure this program is checked; then install it on one or more
network computers.
Once the Content Service is installed on the network computer, you can add one or more network folders
to be watched. Adding watched folders enables the content service to build an index for the files in those
folders. The key difference between watched folders on the local machine and watched folders on the