VBA Open and Close Drawing

[CADdancer]

Hello AUGI Members:

I am relatively new to visual basic for applications and have a simple VBA batch plotting routine I developed to plot in-house drawings. The program works fine for our needs except when someone has a drawing or two open that I am trying to batch plot. When this occurs the routine stops and waits for you to answer the prompt to open the drawing as Read Only.

I basically want to know if there is a way to eliminate this from happening so the batch plot will run in an uninterrupted manner....??

I also have a another question about closing drawing files using the same VBA program. I am using the following line of code to close each drawing file:

###Code Start
ThisDrawing.Application.ActiveDocument.Close

It does close the drawing but it also saves the file and I really want to close the drawing file without saving it. Is there any way to accomplish this....??

Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated....!!

Regards,
Vince

[mcoonrod]

Try using
ThisDrawing.Application.ActiveDocument.Open (true)
This will open the drawing in read only all the time so it will stop the prompt

ThisDrawing.Application.ActiveDocument.Close (false)
will close the drawing without saving

[CADdancer]

Thank you for your quick response.....!!

When I try to add (true) to it I get a compile error.

ThisDrawing.Application.Documents.Open (True) DwgDir & lstSelect.List(count) & ".dwg"

However, the ThisDrawing.Application.ActiveDocument.Close (False) line of code works OK.

Do you have any suggestions.....!!!

Regards,
Vince

[mcoonrod]

I'm sorry, I don't know what I was thinking. This is what you need, if you already have variables set up for these then you can sustitute.

Application.Documents.Open DwgDir & lstSelect.List(count) & ".dwg", True

[CADdancer]

That did the trick.....The routine appears to be working fine.....!!!

Once again, thank you for you expert solution to my question.

Regards,
Vince