I wrote a little project creation program which writes a batch file to xcopy all the files from our “standard project” into the project’s main directory. I was very pleased that this co-exists with Newforma quite well.  Here’s what it does for one project:

K: [ put you on the project drive ]
cd K:\999901 [ put you in the project’s main folder ]
xcopy K:\stdprj\*.* /E/Y/C/Q/K/O [ copy all the folders & files in the standard project ]

pretty simple, but it works; just edit the project number and execute the batch file.

we have a ‘project creation’ project with a ‘setup docs’ document set to quickly access the files that need to be copied in.

not automated, but it helps.

It would be nice if Project Center would give you the ability to copy in a directory structure with files at project creation time.

I know you can have it create the directory structure but we also have a need for files to be copied.

For example we have revit files that need to be copied into the correct folder.  So if at project creation time it copied that directory from the “template location” to the active project directory that included the necessary files, that would automate the process and make our lives easier!

What do you think?