Autocad as windows service to Plot PDFs

[Anonymous]

I can't figure out whats wrong with what I'm doing here, any help would be appreciated.

I have a .exe I made in VB6 that launches autocad, reads a text file for filename, opens that file, then goes thru a plot script. If I execute this as a standalone .exe, this works fine, but I also have a windows service .exe which call this exe sometimes, and it does not work when executing it via windows service.

I have made sure that the service is executed via a user account and not system, but that still don't matter.

Anyone done this before?

Thanks,
Viktor.

[Anonymous]

well, if anyone cares to know, if you decide to run autocad in a windows service application, you may want to make sure that in your options, you're not looking to a local user folder for penstyles and pc3 files. That will give you one big headache.