topic Re: How do you make a tool to open a drawing from a tool palette? in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

How do you make a tool to open a drawing from a tool palette?

tiger4956 — Sat, 21 May 2016 21:00:23 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to make a tool on a custom tool palette that will open a drawing.

The following command line works, but I have to press enter to complete the command and open the drawing. First, set FILEDIA=0 or this won't work at all. The "open" command is one of the Express tools.

^C^C_open "D:\Dropbox\Acad\Steel Shapes.dwg";

The semi-colon at the end is supposed to be the same as pressing "Enter", but it doesn't work. I also tried a space and ^M, which are also supposed to be the same as pressing enter. I also tried replacing back-slashes with forward slashes, it still works the same, I still have to press enter to open the drawing.

I tried replacing "_open" with ^O but found it toggling ortho instead of opening.

Thanks,

Rob

Re: How do you make a tool to open a drawing from a tool palette?

hmsilva — Sun, 22 May 2016 10:13:29 GMT

Hi Rob,

if SDI=1 your code will works as expected.

If you are not using LT, I would suggest something like this

^C^C(vl-load-com);(vla-activate (vla-open (vla-get-documents (vlax-get-acad-object))"D:/Dropbox/Acad/Steel Shapes.dwg"));

Hope this helps,
Henrique

Re: How do you make a tool to open a drawing from a tool palette?

tiger4956 — Sun, 22 May 2016 13:53:14 GMT

Thank you very much! Your code worked exactly as expected. Some of my tool palettes are getting bloated, and in some cases I would just rather open the source drawing and copy-paste what I need.

Thanks again!

Rob

Re: How do you make a tool to open a drawing from a tool palette?

hmsilva — Sun, 22 May 2016 13:54:38 GMT

You're welcome, Rob!
Glad I could help

Henrique