Open drawing with CTRL-N

[Rikkes]

Hi,

I would like to open a specified drawing when I push CTRL-N.

The drawing that I would like to open with this command is located on our serven at adress \\SERVERBOOM\DataBoom\BOOM\Jobs\ACad Sjablonen\Rikkes\Start.dwg.

Now in the CUI, I changed the CTRL-N command to this ^C^C_open;"\\SERVERBOOM\DataBoom\BOOM\Jobs\ACad Sjablonen\Rikkes\Start.dwg";^C^C but that doesn't work.

Where did I go wrong?

Thx

Rikkes

[Jonathan3891 · Accepted solution]

Try this:

^C^C(startapp "explorer" (findfile "//SERVERBOOM/DataBoom/BOOM/Jobs/ACad Sjablonen/Rikkes/Start.dwg"))

If "SERVERBOOM" has been mapped on your machine is will have a letter associated with it. Use that inplace of //SERVERBOOM.

For example if it were called your "I" drive

^C^C(startapp "explorer" (findfile "I:/DataBoom/BOOM/Jobs/ACad Sjablonen/Rikkes/Start.dwg"))

[steve216586]

You just gave this guy the code to detonate explosives remotely through his AutoCad!  😛

[Rikkes]

Steve, what do you mean by this? Is it a problem to use that code?

[Jonathan3891 · Accepted solution]

He's just kidding, notice the silly face.

I use this method to launch excel files and other programs from AutoCAD frequently.

[Rikkes]

Yes, I tought also but you never know... 🙂

Anyway , it works fine! Thx!

Rikkes