Active Project Specific Commands

[Anthony.Mauric]

Hello everyone,

When working within drawings in several different projects, I've found that some commands need to be run in the active project, but they don't alert you or fail until the end of execution (sometimes after making object selections or working through all the options).

When I come across these commands, I've been modifying them to alert that you're not operating in the active project.

^C^C^P(if (= GBL_wd_cip 0)(alert "Active DWG not in active project")(c:CMD))

I'm going to be distributing these changes to the rest of our company via CUI transfer and wanted to see if anyone had suggestions for other commands I should include in this.

Here's what I have so far:

• Surfer (_wd_surf)
• Previous/Next DWG (_AWPREV, _AENEXT)
• Update/Retag (_wd_bump)
• Title Block Setup (_AESETUPTITLEBLOCK)
• Title Block Update (_AEUPDATETITLEBLOCK)

[Anonymous]

I mean anything to do with the project. All the Reports, wire numbering project wide, updating blocks project wide (done that one before and it wan't fun). I am sure there is more but those are the ones I have ran into before.

[Anthony.Mauric]

Thanks, I'm adding these to the list:

• Component Update (AEUPDFROMCAT)
• Swap/Update Block (wd_bswap_main)
• Retag Components (AERETAG)
• Automatic Wire Numbers (wd_ins_wn)
• Reports (ace_report_schem, ace_report_panel, ace_report_auto, AEFORMATFILE)
• Utilities (wd_prj_run)

[jtoverka]

Before I had a standard in place, AeResequence has been quite destructive.

[rhesusminus]

The AcadE Toolbox I've been working on for a few years, have this on the cursor if the drawing isn't in the active project:

[Anthony.Mauric]

rhesusminus,

what toolbox are you using to get that cursor? Any info you can link?

[rhesusminus]

Hi Anthony.

This from a toolbox for autoCAD Electricl that I started working on years ago, taking ideas from the AcadE Ideastation.
I was thinking about maybe making some money on this, but as it seems like "someone" stopped developing AcadE, I just can't find the energy to finish and "productify" this.