Automatically Open Drawings From Previous Session

[CADdancer]

Hi Robert,

Can you tell me if there is a way to utilize the "snapshot" code you developed and have a variation that would open the drawing files in "Read Only" mode....??

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide....!

Regards,
Vince

[RobertB]

It would be possible to record which drawings were read-only at the point of the snapshot, and open them again as read-only the next time AutoCAD started. Is that what you are looking for?

[CADdancer]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for you response....!

Actually I was looking for the ability to simply open all of the previous drawings as "Read Only" but your option also sounds interesting.

Thanks again,

Vince

[robert.1.hall72202]

Is there anything special that needs to be done for importing the routine
from 2008 to 2009?

I can write the snapshot, however, it is not being read upon reopenning autocad.

All of the support file paths are ok, acaddoc.lsp is being read, and acad.lsp is in the
same folder.

Still has this code:

;;; Begin Snapshot.dvb support in Acad.lsp
(vl-Load-Com)
(cond ((setq fqn (findfile "Snapshot.dvb"))
       (vla-LoadDVB (vlax-Get-Acad-Object) fqn)
       (setq fqn nil)
       (defun-q	i:ReadSnapshot
		()
		(setvar "AcadLspAsDoc" 0)
		(cond ((= (getvar "DwgTitled") 0)
		       (command "._VBAStmt" "ThisDrawing.ReadSnapshot"))))
       (setq S::StartUp (append S::StartUp i:Readsnapshot))
       (princ))
      (T (princ "\nSnapshot application not found.") (terpri) (princ)))
;;; End Snapshot support in Acad.lsp

[RobertB]

The posted code works fine in AutoCAD 2009. It must be somthing in your setup. Make sure you don't have Acad.lsp in an unexpected location.

Command: (findfile "acad.lsp")

[robert.1.hall72202]

"C:\\Documents and Settings\\rhall\\Application Data\\Autodesk\\AutoCAD
Mechanical 2009\\R17.2\\enu\\support\\acad.lsp"

That checks out, the code is there.

It creates a file called snapshot.txt right?
I searched the entire drive and didn't find a file.

[RobertB]

It will place the file where you specified in the .dvb file. The default is C:\Temp\Snapshot.txt in the posted .dvb file.

[robert.1.hall72202]

Thanks, I figured it out.

I had to add support paths to both C:/temp and snapshot.dvb.

Didn't think I needed the snapshot directory since the macro
has been loading. Command line stated that it could not find the
program.

[RobertB]

Thanks, I figured it out.

I had to add support paths to both C:/temp and snapshot.dvb.

Didn't think I needed the snapshot directory since the macro
has been loading. Command line stated that it could not find the
program.

The folder where the .dvb is located does need to be on the support path. All add-on programs should be located on the support path somewhere (perhaps this is not directly expressed anywhere, but should be a given anyway).

However, C:\Temp does not need to be on the support paths.

[madcadder]

Just wanted to stop and say, "Thank you Robert" again. I've been off on another planet for a while and it's nice to see that this continued to develop.