My startup suite lisp routines are not working properly

[jim.dozorec]

Hi, All

I just got a new computer and after setting it up for AUTOCAD 2005 (which I had on the old computer), my "Startup Suite" lisp routines, when invoked by the command line, return an "Unknown Command" message.

I saved my profile from the old computer and reloaded to this one. The contents of the "Startup Suite" are the same as previously. And the path to the lisp routines is correct.

Anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?

Regards, Jim

[Tom Beauford]

Hi, All

I just got a new computer and after setting it up for AUTOCAD 2005 (which I had on the old computer), my "Startup Suite" lisp routines, when invoked by the command line, return an "Unknown Command" message.

I saved my profile from the old computer and reloaded to this one. The contents of the "Startup Suite" are the same as previously. And the path to the lisp routines is correct.

Anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?

Regards, Jim

They're not loading. Either their location is not in the path or the file that loaded them on your old setup is missing. Enter (findfile "name of you routine.lsp") at the command line. File not found means "name of you routine.lsp" was not in the path. Were they loaded in the acaddoc.lsp before? Did you copy it to the new system? Check the path returned by (findfile "acaddoc.lsp") to see if a different one is loading.

[Richard.Kent]

Usually when you get the Unknown Command there is something in the lisp file that is not working properly, something is no longer recognized, etc. I know recently I had this very problem and found that I was changing the Dimscale on startup. The problem is with 2008 if an annotative dimstyle is set then AutoCAD won't recognize the dimscale call.

A way to narrow down the problem is to see what has loaded and what is not working. Open your startup file and then try some of the custom named routines you may be loading, if one works then try one further down the page until you find one that isn't loaded. Go from there.

[rkmcswain]

Can you load these files manually? (drag/drop from Windows Explorer onto the editor window).

If so, then I would give up on the startup suite and just append/create your "acaddoc.lsp" file.

Create a line for each lisp file that you want to load at startup. Add the path if necessary. (Note the double slashes)

(load "mylisp")
(load "D:\\mylisp\\special\\tlen")
(load "\\\\server\\share\\dir\\lispfile")

Make sure "acaddoc.lsp" is located in your support file search path, preferably at the TOP.

See this post for more info.

[robert.1.hall72202]

2005 brings back fond memories of losing lisp routines while drawing. All of a sudden
certain routines would stop working. Seems as if AutoCad was dropping the lisp files.
Never could figure out the cause.

[jim.dozorec]

Hi, All

Thanks for all the advice. I started ACAD2005 this morning before doing anything that you all advised and all of the lisps in the "Startup Suite" are working now!!!

I don't know what happened as I had loaded and unloaded ACAD2005 several times previously and they refused to work, but now they are?!?!?!

ACAD is strange sometimes.

Regards, Jim

[Tom Beauford]

Never had a problem, but I've never used the "Startup Suite" either. Acad.lsp for any lisp to run on startup, acaddoc.lsp for any lisp to run with each drawing, and acad.rx for arx files. Files are easilly backed up and transfered.