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AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:51:35 GMT

Hello everybody,

is there a possibility that the AutoCAD profile name (e.g. <<ADADMPP>>)

could be displayed in the title bar? Is there a registry key or some other way? I would like to help those users who often switch between different profiles in AutoCAD.

For example like this:

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

ВeekeeCZ — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:58:56 GMT

THIS might put some light...

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Shneuph — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:41:21 GMT

If it doesn't need to go in the titlebar, it may be much easier to put it in the MODEMACRO variable.

MODEMACRO

$(getvar, cprofile)

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

CodeDing — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:26:37 GMT

@Shneuph ,

I had no idea this existed until today. Thank you.

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Shneuph — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:46:46 GMT

For an example.. Here is the string we use. You should be able to copy and paste into the commandline for modemacro:

$(if,$(eq,$(getvar,pstylemode),0),"STB DWG" ,"CTB DWG") " | OsnapZ: "$(if,$(eq,$(getvar,osnapz),0),"OFF" ,"ON") " | Txt S: " $(RTOS, $(*,$(getvar,TEXTSIZE),8)[, 2, 2])" | Dim S: " $(RTOS, $(getvar,DIMSCALE)[, 2, 2]) " | LTS: " $(getvar,LTSCALE) " | OS " $(getvar,osmode) " | Profile " $(getvar,cprofile) " | Mtext Editor: " $(getvar,mtexted) " | CenterMT: " $(if,$(eq,$(getvar,centermt),0),"Not Centered" ,"Centered")

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 05:51:13 GMT

Hi @Shneuph ,

when I restart the AutoCAD, the value of MODEMACRO is overwritten with "". I need a pemanent solution.

The value of the string "$(getvar, cprofile) is also not shown. I can only create a command macro with this string.

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

cadffm — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 05:59:29 GMT

For this you have your (own) ACADDOC.lsp 😶

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

cadffm — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:10:38 GMT

@Anonymous schrieb:

Hi @Shneuph ,

The value of the string "$(getvar, cprofile) is also not shown.

???

Modemacro appears in your statusbar, if you set statusbar off, you can't see the Modemacro string 😂

Please upload a screenshot of the whole program windows after you set modemacro this way:

MODEMACRO Aktuelles Profil ist: $(getvar,CPROFILE)

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

ВeekeeCZ — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:20:16 GMT

Use this expression:

(setvar 'modemacro "$(getvar,cprofile)")

Save it as a *.lsp file, add the file to the StartUp Suite.

Then you would see the profile name in this part of your screen... as the very first item of the status bar.

So not much close to what you had in mind when starting this thread.

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:33:46 GMT

Thank you very much to you all, especially to Vilík 😀

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

ВeekeeCZ — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:34:27 GMT

Another simple idea of how to clearly distinguish profiles can be using QAT with some dummy icons. As this example...

You can create/download eg icons of letters... whatever.

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

cadffm — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:47:30 GMT

Creative idea,

But hard to handle if you are using the same main.cuix&workspace,

in this case you need to know how so set up a command/button with linked icons.png and then you can set different paths for customer icons.

My Q:

Or does i miss some way to use this idea?

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

ВeekeeCZ — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:12:44 GMT

That was just an idea for the OP to consider. No more.

If I would want such a thing for myself, I would consider that as feasible. But I'm not really one who needs to care about a bunch of users. But your point of view is legit. Sure.

BTW I am switching between C3D and ACAD profiles a lot. Often having them side by side. I use a background to visually distinguish them. Whether C3D is by default in dark gray-blue color, ACAD is black. All I need. Personally consider MODEMACRO as "not enough" for such a case. Also, have more interesting/interactive stuff to show in the status bar than a simple profile name.

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

cadffm — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:26:32 GMT

@ВeekeeCZ schrieb:

That was just an idea for the OP to consider. No more.

And i like the idea (generally interest)!

That's why i took time to think about a solution for this and i ends up with:

Possible, but to complicated in most of cases.

Thanks for sharing the idea 🙂

Re: AutoCAD - description of the profile name in the title bar

Sea-Haven — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 04:23:45 GMT

Rather than jumping between 2 workspaces I just made a custom menu that had a lot of the most used CIV3D stuff and added it to my Drafting workspace much easier, just used notepad and cut and pasted stuff out of CUI.