Robocopy in Accaddoc.lsp

[Mitch Mermel]

We have several small remote offices, with our drawing files and standards files (acaddoc.lsp, individual lisp routines, etc.) stored on the server in our main office. We have pretty high speed internet connections and a riverbed system in place between all office. We just increased the connections speed/bandwidth to our largest remote office.

So that the remote offices don't have to keep loading lisp files, checking additional font files and so on from the main server I created "remote" profiles which use these same file but they are stored on the local workstation. To maintain the files when I make changes I use the windows ROBOCOPY command as part of the remote site acaddoc.lsp file. The function is (command "shell" "robocopy J:\\_ABS\\LocalACADSupport\\ c:\\temp /e")

This has been pretty good for the last few years but we are trying to squeeze every ounce of speed out of AutoCAD at remote sites. Robocopy runs each time a drawing is opened, adding between 8 & 9 seconds to opening the drawing. The time taken to open a drawing at a remote site is between 30 & 45 seconds which includes the Robocopy.

Is there any way to do this so Robocopy only opens once per AutoCAD session?

Thanks

[Tom Beauford]

You could put it in acad.doc and it will run one time only.

[dgorsman]

Why not do it as part of the user log-in?

[BlackBox]

Is there any way to do this so Robocopy only opens once per AutoCAD session?

Consider the /b startup switch in your application icon's Target path.

You could put it in acad.doc and it will run one time only.

Unless ACADLSPASDOC == 1.

Why not do it as part of the user log-in?

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