Custom Dictionary

[mikeshick]

For the past few years, my custom dictionary in AutoCAD based products has not worked, for one reason or another.  This year, I see that the problem occurs because after each program exit, the selected custom dictionary defaults to none, even though my custom dictionary is set in the options.

Does someone know how to right a lisp routine that would automate setting the custom dictionary to my desired selection.  then I could insert it into the Acaddoc.lsp routine.

Thanks,

[pendean]

On the same PC all these years too?
Does your "autocad product" start up by calling an external ARG file? That might be the culprit.
Do you give your file a unique name? Or do you edit it in MSWord or something else?
DCTCUST command identifies your file as what and where is it stored?
Perhaps you need to move the file to a folder where you have read/write/rename/delete rights PLUS it's in the AutoCAD search path defined in OPTIONS command's FILES tab entry too.

DCTMAIN command is set to what?

[Victoria.Studley]

Hi @mikeshick,

In addition to @pendean's questions, I'd like to know: do you see this error message as well?

[mikeshick]

Thanks, Dean.

All different PC's, but same setup.
No external ARG, but internal one, yes.
File does have unique name.
Dctcust is set to same as options files tab entry
File is in folder readable, writeable folder
No edit except notepad
Dctmain - enu

[pendean]

You might have to do one or more of these fixes then https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Error-...

[mikeshick]

Any chance you guys might know autolisp in order to through a command in the autocad.lsp to ensure the custom dictionary always loads at each drawing.  Issue was never resolved.

[mikeshick]

Did anyone see this post about using lisp to set a custom dictionary each drawing load?