AutoCAD P&ID

[#1]

I'm trying to write a script to batch export P&ID drawings to autocad and i use this command "-exporttoautocad".

However, this command will initiate the aec export to autocad command. If i run "exporttoautocad" one time (click cancel in the dialog box), close it ,and reenter "-exporttoautocad" command, it will work.

is there any way i can use the silent command directly? Running out of options here, we have around 100+ drawings in each project and its too time consuming to export one by one.

[#2]

Sorry to resurrect an old post - but did you find a solution for this?

[#3]

-exporttoautocad works (in 2012), its all command line driven, is that what you are after?

[#4]

I had success with this command - but I am unable to write a batch script with it.

When I open drawings with the "open" command and a network path none of the project commands work. Is there a different command I can use that will have it recognize the project and allow me to ExportToAutocad?

[#5]

What kind of script? VBA, or AutoCAD?

[#6]

Either LISP or the .NET API would be fine for me.

[#7]

I know in VBA it would be pretty easy to loop through a directory and maybe do the ThisDrawing.SendCommand function?

I am yet to test and double check it works as I think it might

[#8]

Just found a script I had written for this a while ago. Its a VBA script that you input a folder and what you what to append at the end of the filename, and it does a loop through that folder and exports them to plain vanilla autocad files.

[#9]

Can you share this script, or at least the snippet of how you opened the file? I've written .Net libraries before that could batch through drawings. But,  like I mentioned earlier in the post, if I open the drawing with the normal AutoCAD method, it does not have access to the P&ID commands.

[#10]

Yeah, you would have to run the scripts inside P3D (or P&ID).

I'll PM you