Antivirus Exclusions for Optimal AutoCAD and F/X CAD Performance

Issue

You're wondering whether you can adjust or add exclusions to your antivirus program to improve the performance of AutoCAD or F/X CAD.

Solution

Autodesk recommends adding the following exclusions to your antivirus software:

• C:\Program Files\Autodesk
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk
• C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Autodesk

In addition, Autodesk suggests creating exceptions for the following file types:

.3ds, .ac$, .apj, .bak, .ctb, .cui, .cuix, .dcl, .dst, .dwf, .dwg, .dwl, .dwl2, .dwt, .fbx, .ipt, .lin, .ma, .mat, .max, .mb, .mns, .mnu, .pat, .pgp, .rfa, .rft, .rte, .rvt, .shp, .shx, .stb, .sv$

... and possibly for these file types:

.sq* (sqlite), .wdp, .ldb, .mdb, .mui, .aux, .chm

For further information, see the official Autodesk page on this subject.