Auto load lisps from network

[anieves228]

Hi all!

I'm brand new to lisps and I have made decent progress these pasts 2 weeks. 

I'm working on autoloading lisps from our network. I put the acaddoc.lsp in the support folder and auto cad reads it. Now I want my acaddoc.lsp file to load a file from our network. Im not sure how I can achieve this. Here is my code:

;****************************************************************************************
;AUTO RUN UPON OPENING NEW DWG
;location: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2019\Support

(load "\\gsgfs02\\CAD\\Automation\\Lisp Routines\\TESTING\\gsg autoload.lsp")

(PROMPT "GSG AUTO LISP LOADED.")
(PRINC)

;END AUTO RUN
;****************************************************************************************

Thanks!

[roland.r71 · Accepted solution]

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@anieves228 wrote:

Hi all!

I'm brand new to lisps and I have made decent progress these pasts 2 weeks. 

I'm working on autoloading lisps from our network. I put the acaddoc.lsp in the support folder and auto cad reads it. Now I want my acaddoc.lsp file to load a file from our network. Im not sure how I can achieve this. Here is my code:

;****************************************************************************************
;AUTO RUN UPON OPENING NEW DWG
;location: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2019\Support

(load "\\gsgfs02\\CAD\\Automation\\Lisp Routines\\TESTING\\gsg autoload.lsp")

(PROMPT "GSG AUTO LISP LOADED.")
(PRINC)

;END AUTO RUN
;****************************************************************************************

Thanks!

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Welcome!

A network or UNC path starts with the servername, preceded by a double slash (all) or double backslash (Windows only)

So after adding another backslash to tell acad you realy want a backslash, your path should look like:

(load "\\\\gsgfs02\\CAD\\Automation\\Lisp Routines\\TESTING\\gsg autoload.lsp")

or

(load "//gsgfs02/CAD/Automation/Lisp Routines/TESTING/gsg autoload.lsp")

I personally prefer to use the latter.

[anieves228]

Awesome thank you!

And whats the latter?

[roland.r71]

The last option given.

So, / instead of \

It prevents problems with \ being an escape char. altogether, instead of escaping the escape char.

& it looks better.

But as I said, its just a matter of preference.

[scot-65]

Try this for a more predictable result
(if load fails, prompt still says it is successful).

(princ (strcat "\n GSG Auto LISP "
(if (load "[YourLoadPathHere]" nil)
"Loaded. " "Failed. ")))
(princ)

???