topic Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing in AutoCAD Electrical Forum

[Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

brybarczyk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:34:28 GMT

I am trying to run a script on a project in Autocad Electrical 2025. The script loads an .LSP file. The .LSP file imports wire layers from a .DFT file into the drawing. It works normally when doing an active drawing, but when I try to run the script project-wide, it hangs. I've pasted the whole script text below.

;script to load all the MCS wire layers into the current drawing
;cmdecho 1
(load "C:\\_MCS_ENG_Vault\\ACADE_Shared\\AeData\\MCS-UPD-CLAY.LSP")
MCS-UPD-CLAY
MCS-STANDARD
E

When I try to run the script through the Project-Wide Utilities button, it prints out the results on the console more than once and it never ends up running the command. Sometimes it crashes. See Photo

I want to get this figured out because it would be a huge help to my team and myself.

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:22:15 GMT

do you have enough enters (new line) in your script to finish the command sequence allowing the utility to continue to the next drawing?

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

brybarczyk — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:06:31 GMT

Yes. After the user inputs 'E' and presses enter, the script should finish because that's the last enter of the script

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:12:47 GMT

share your script file, you will need to change the file extension to .txt to attach

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

brybarczyk — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:23:12 GMT

The MCS-UPD-CLAY.LSP file was converted to .txt along with the .scr file

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:39:38 GMT

It's quite hard to test this due to the files involved, does it work if you put another line here? this is the equivalent of pressing enter again

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

brybarczyk — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:08:31 GMT

It works fine when I select the Active Drawing, but not when I select Project-Wide. I've added more and more <new line> (I added up to 8 new lines at one point) but I still get the same result.

Re: [Autocad Scripts] Project-wide script hangs on first drawing

james.mcmillanNYR6A — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:33:11 GMT

sure, adding more lines won't help, this is the equivalent of pressing enter in AutoCAD, which assuming the command has finished will just try to repeat the last command

is it stuck somewhere internally to your lisp? (princ) at the end might help, looks like it might be trying to repeat the selection of DFT name