Saving and restoring the Startup Suite

[Borgster]

I run a lot of scripts at the end of our projects to extract data, manipulate data, and prepare the drawings for the customer. It's not uncommon for there to be a few hundred drawings in a project. So, what I like to do is change to the minimum interface(no menus etc) in order for the script to run faster. However, I have quite a few lisp routines in my startup suite that of course get loaded with every drawing. I would like to back it up, remove the contents, and then restore it when I'm done. I understand that the startup suite is handled in the registry. If this is true, how would I go about this? I'm very leery of manipulating the registry, however with the right guidance I'm willing to give it a try. I assume that I need to do this programatically. Or is there another way? If not, where do I start?

[Opie]

I run a lot of scripts at the end of our projects to extract data, manipulate data, and prepare the drawings for the customer. It's not uncommon for there to be a few hundred drawings in a project. So, what I like to do is change to the minimum interface(no menus etc) in order for the script to run faster. However, I have quite a few lisp routines in my startup suite that of course get loaded with every drawing. I would like to back it up, remove the contents, and then restore it when I'm done. I understand that the startup suite is handled in the registry. If this is true, how would I go about this? I'm very leery of manipulating the registry, however with the right guidance I'm willing to give it a try. I assume that I need to do this programatically. Or is there another way? If not, where do I start?

Have you thought about creating a new profile / workspace combination to have the minimal interface you are looking to create?

[Borgster]

I do. But I didn't think the startup suite changed with the workspace.

[Opie]

I'm not sure as I do not use the Startup Suite. However, it should be dependent on the profile in use.

[cadtag]

If you are using 2013 or 2014, you might want to look into running the coreconsole application, think of it as a headkless autocad 00 less footprint,a nd should be noticably faster if scripting a large number of drawings

[Borgster]

Thanks CadTag! I had never even heard of that. It looks a little daunting though. Maybe that's a good Saturday project.

[ReachAndre]

Partial CUI maybe?