Run a script that sets Variables from a button or drawing startup.

[SRBalliet]

I am trying to create a toolbar button. I always want my sysvars to be the same all the time whether saved in the drawing, registry or not saved. This is what I have so far but its not working:

^C^C filedia;0;script;L:\Data\Script\AutoCAD Variables.scr

(In the script the file dia is turned back to "1")

Any better ideas?

How about a script that will run each time I open a drawing? It only takes a second to run the script and this would cover the sysvars that don't get saved with the drawings.

[steve.86586]

Why not use a lisp routine instead? It can run when the drawing is opened.
Just put it in your acaddoc.lsp.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi Steve

Please note I have *moved* this thread from the AutoCAD General forum to this one as I feel this particular Forum is a more appropriate place for such a topic.

Thanks, Mike

Forum Moderator

[steve.86586]

That's kewl. I was just replying to the question and it just happened to be posted in the AutoCAD General Forum. But..if it's moved will the poster who needs the answer know where to go now?


Thanks

[Mike.Perry]

But..if it's moved will the poster who needs the answer know where to go now?

Hi

Yes!

Please see here ( RE: Linetypes with shapes - Error: bad definition at line... ) for an explanation.

Mike

[SRBalliet]

Why not use a lisp routine instead? It can run when the drawing is opened.
Just put it in your acaddoc.lsp.

I don't know how to write a lisp routine and don't have the time to learn it right now.

[rkmcswain]

Any better ideas?

What steve said. Do it with "acaddoc.lsp"

How about a script that will run each time I open a drawing?

That's what "acaddoc.lsp" does, runs each time a drawing is opened. No, it's not a .scr file, but if you only know how to write script files, you could call your script file from "acaddoc.lsp"

Just add a line like this (using your path/filename) to a file named "acaddoc.lsp" in the directory at the top of the support file search path.

(command "._script" "\\\\server\\share\\directory\\your.scr")

...although setting sysvars is very easy in lisp. See below

(setvar "varname" value)

(setvar "hpname" "solid")
(setvar "mtexted" "internal")
(setvar "cmddia" 0)

[SRBalliet]

I don't have a "acaddoc.lsp", but I do have a "acad2005doc.lsp". Are they used the same by the software?

[rkmcswain]

I don't have a "acaddoc.lsp", but I do have a "acad2005doc.lsp". Are they used the same by the software?

No.

"acad####doc.lsp" is a Autodesk supplied file. Do not modify it, or your changes may be lost during the next patch, repair, or upgrade.

"acaddoc.lsp" is a user defined file, that AutoCAD will read, but not modify.

More details at:
http://support.autodesk.com/Getdoc.asp?ID=TS21336
http://www.afralisp.co.za/lisp/custom.htm
http://support.autodesk.com/Getdoc.asp?ID=TS28079

[steve.86586]

You don't necessarily have to have a acaddoc.lsp. I don't believe you have one straight outa the box so to speak. And that's ok, AutoCAD looks for it and if you don't have it then kewl....but if you do then it acts on it accordingly. If you don't have it by default then all you need do is create it and put it in the document path as rkmcswain indicated. Then when you open a drawing, AutoCAD looks for the acaddoc.lsp file automagicly and performs the routines that are defined in that document.


In AutoCAD 2005...you click on the tools menu button at the top of your screen and select "options".
That opens up a dialogue box, then select the "files" tab. Under the "files" tab you will see
"support file search path" at the top of the list. What rkmcswain was saying was to insert your newly
created acaddoc.lsp file at the top of that hierarchy.

Steve