topic Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025 in AutoCAD Architecture Customization Forum

Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

jeff_Moskovciak — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:48:47 GMT

Hi, my team has begun testing ACA 2025, and one thing that I noticed is not all of the lisp routines saved in our Acaddoc.lsp file are loading. If I save the routines separately and load them individually, they work. Is there a setting in ACA 2025 that I'm missing?

Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

jeff_Moskovciak — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:00:36 GMT

And to add to the weirdness of the situation, the routines DO load and work in a new drawing, but not in an existing file.

Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

pendean — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:28:48 GMT

Unless your last version your LISP worked well was like ADT2004, it's most likely something else going on like a missed location change (or bad spelling) of that LISP name in your search paths and trusted folder lists in OPTIONS' FILES tab in your ACA2025.

Feel free to share one of those LISP here along with your acaddoc.lsp file, and provide details on how you are set up.

As for new vs old drawing, are those failing LISP routine more for old block definitions vs new blocks?

You'll also want to share new vs old DWG samples too.

Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

jeff_Moskovciak — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:32:07 GMT

Thank you for your response, and I actually was able to figure it out via another post that you contributed to. There was an old routine that relied on all Express Tools being loaded, and, as I just found out, ACA 2025 does not load all Express Tools anymore. This caused the rest of my routines to stop loading at that point in the code. I added the code below and now everything loads fine:

But now I have a new issue, this line now creates the same loading issue for our ACA 2023 users. Is there a lisp routine that can plug this line into that will only load for 2025 and higher and negate it for 2024 and lower?

Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

pendean — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:24:21 GMT

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-2025-Products-do-not-load-some-Express-Tools-components-on-launch.html

Re: Lisp Routines in Acaddoc.lsp Not Loading in ACA 2025

jeff_Moskovciak — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:50:09 GMT

Perfect, thanks!