The documentation for the acaddoc.lsp file is where I took the quote from.
If you ever have a need to reinstall or upgrade AutoCAD, all of your changes
to acad2000doc.lsp will disappear. If person A wants to give his
customizations to person B, and sends acad2000doc.lsp, and if person B also
has his own customized acad2000doc.lsp, it might take some effort to sort it
all out. The same could also be said for acaddoc.lsp files, but at least in
that case it isn't mixed with Autodesk-generated and necessary code.
Acad2000doc.lsp exists because AutoCAD needs it to run. Acaddoc.lsp does
not exist initially because the user is in charge of it. However, it's
extremely simple to create the file if it doesn't exist.
All that being said, I'll concede that it is possible, if you are the owner
of your AutoCAD license rather than an employee, and if you are either very
organized or have little ambition to do a lot of customization, that it may
well cause no harm to make your changes in a file that was never intended
for you to change. However, as you are giving advice on a public forum that
is intended to help people learn the proper way to do things, I have to
point out the proper way. If you want to depart from the norm, I don't
care, but I do care about people who will be influenced by what you say.
"dviator" wrote in message
news:f13638f.5@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> ok, i did find a knowledge base article that says not to modify the
acad2000doc.lsp. (is this what you're referring to? i couldn't find it
anywhere else.) however, adding variable settings to this file will not have
any adverse affects as long as nothing else in the file is removed. as far
as one being superior to the other, i never claimed that to be the case. the
acaddoc.lsp file requires user creation, the acad2000doc.lsp file already
exists, that's the only benefit i'm pointing out, so if you're just adding a
couple of variable settings what's the difference?
>
