Netload doesn't work in AutoCAD script ( but works when I manually typing it in command line)

[soonhui]

Here's something strange. When I explicitly type in Netload at the AutoCAD command line, I can select the relevant dll and the loading is successful.

However, when I netload it via script, it doesn't work.

To be more specific, I'm launching AutoCAD 2023( as Civil 3D 2023, but it shouldn't matter here) as a Debugging action in my Visual Studio 2023, with the following command line argument:

/ld "D:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2023\\AecBase.dbx" /p "<<C3D_Metric>>" /product "C3D" /b "C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\LoadPlugin_2023.scr"

And in my SCR script, this is what I put in

netload "C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"

When I launch my debugger, I can see AutoCAD being loaded alright, but I don't see my plugin being activated ( like I mentioned above, if I manually type in Netload then everything works just fine). When I press F2, I got this weird message:

netload Assembly file name: "C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"*Cancel*
*Cancel*"C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"
"C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"

Notice that AutoCAD actually cancels (??) my netload, for unknown reasons!

On a separate note, notice that the dll is located 2 directories below the .scr file. I wonder whether it's possible to simplify the scr content  to something like

netload "..\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"

Does SCR file support relative path?

[ActivistInvestor]

Have you tried using the LISP (command) function to invoke NETLOAD? 

[soonhui]

@ActivistInvestor , no haven't. But can you call .lsp file like how you call .scr file in the VS debugging command line setting?

[_gile · Accepted solution]

In the script file, replace:

netload "C:\Users\User\Documents\Projects\MES\MiTS2\Civil3DIntegrator\Source\bin\Debug\2023\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll"

with this LISP expression:

(command "netload" "C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\Projects\\MES\\MiTS2\\Civil3DIntegrator\\Source\\bin\\Debug\\2023\\MES.Civil3DIntegrator.dll")

[soonhui]

@_gile , this is what I got after modifying the SCR file:

Now the plugin is loaded and all I have to do further after this, is just to press the Enter key. There is some progress in a sense.

But why my original command couldn't work? It does work in other project though, but not this one. 

And is there anyway to enhance the script still, so that I don't have to press Enter to load the plugin?

[_gile · Accepted solution]

In an AutoCAD script file, a space or a carriage return means 'Enter'.