Close all drawings and open a single dwg

[gccdaemon]

Don't have time for coding. Can someone write me a routine that closes all open drawings and opens a file called temp.dwg?

I'm trying to add this to a template update routine and can't have people in a "new file" because it locks the acad.dwt from being deleted.

[paullimapa]

I know you can use the CLOSEALL command to close all open drawings.  It'll even prompt the user to save the drawing if required.

But once all drawings are closed, you wont' be able to execute a command to open a new drawing.  Perhaps someone else can jump in here with an idea.

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[gccdaemon]

Perhaps it would be easier programmatically to open the drawing first and close the other drawings open in the background.

[paullimapa · Accepted solution]

Great idea.  So if you have AutoCAD 2016 and up, you can use the new command called CLOSEALLOTHER

If you have older AutoCAD versions, then you can use the attached lisp I found:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/close-all-drawings-except-current-dr...

So you open the dwg first, then you either enter the CLOSEALLOTHER command or load the lisp code and enter CAS

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[gccdaemon]

We have some on 15 and some on 18, so this will do what I need. Thank you sir!

[paullimapa]

glad to have been able to help....cheers!!

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