topic Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

townest — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:05:19 GMT

Greetings,

I thought I had done this before, but I am blanking on how to open an existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE. I have several scripts I regularly run by .bat but that's not my goal this time. I just want to open ACC (which I have open now) then open an existing drawing, play around, save, then close. Thanks for your input.

Tyler

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

Sea-Haven — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 01:57:49 GMT

Console does not display dwg or support interaction. If you use a script can open a dwg do stuff including user interaction then close.

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

townest — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:13:20 GMT

Sure it supports real time command line interaction without a script. Try it...Open ACCCORECONSOLE, line, 1,1, 2,2, save.... Voilà, you have a new drawing with a line.

What I'm struggling with is opening up an existing drawing under similar conditions. Open, do something, save.

Thank you.

Tyler

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

Sea-Haven — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:23:13 GMT

I do not understand why not just open another dwg in the current session and do what ever, do you have sdi mode set to 1 dwg only ?

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

townest — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 12:02:30 GMT

@Sea-Haven: That's what I want to do, but am blanking on the syntax to open the new drawing.

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

Sea-Haven — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:33:41 GMT

(command "-open" dwgname)

(setvar 'filedia 0)

(command "-open" dwgname)

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

townest — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:32:33 GMT

Open does nothing. -open returns unknown command. Would really really be nice to see example syntax. Exactly where are the quotes, parens, spaces, back slashes, forward slashes, colons...etc.. if any. Too many combos to try.

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

SeeMSixty7 — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:28:44 GMT

I'm not 100%, but I believe ACCORECONSOLE is only meant to open a drawing provided at execution time. You would need to exist Console and then relaunch proving the name of the drawing. It is, again from what I understand a limited functionality load and minimal load time module to allow you to process a script on a single drawing. You can batch multiples but each item loads in a new console after the previous console exits.

Hopefully that helps

Re: Open existing drawing in ACCORECONSOLE

Sea-Haven — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:43:39 GMT

Sounds like the dwg name syntax is wrong never had a problem. Same with -Insert, use \\ as delimeter in file name, its well known that spaces in a dwg name or directory using / will often fail.

(command "-open" "d:\\myfiles\\on the server\\over here\dwg1")