"acaddoc.lsp" is changing my settings when I start-up AutoCAD

[joeparisi83]

Anyone want to help me with this?

I wrote a custom lisp as a reminder to myself and my team of a new protocol/standard that we're using in our office. However, after starting up AutoCAD a couple of times, my settings start to change and CAD starts to function strangely. For example, when I use a command CAD will tell me it doesn't recognize the command and I have to enter the command a few times before it recognizes it.

Command Aliases will come up in the wrong order (for example when I enter 'P', I expect PAN to come up, but instead it's PLINE). Then, when I try to edit the aliases, it tells me that it can't locate the .pgp file.

Is there any way that I can fix this? Or am I SOL?

For context, I have the acaddoc at the TOP of the Support File Search Path option. Perhaps that's throwing things off?

This is what I wrote in the routine:

(alert "*!REMINDER!* Prisma Fasteners are Discontinued, replace with typical fastener and washer. All current projects must be updated")

[Kent1Cooper]

Is that (alert) the only thing in the acaddoc.lsp file?  If so, then the problem must be coming from some other source.  There's nothing in an (alert) that could be changing setttings, messing up access to aliases, etc.

[joeparisi83]

Yes. The alert is the only thing in the document.

Is there anything else that I can use that won't disturb any custom settings that would do the same thing?

It's not the biggest deal not to have this alert, but it would help immensely as we have a lot of projects that need this fastener swap to happen.

[Kent1Cooper]

My next question:  If you eliminate that acaddoc.lsp file, and go to work without it for a while, and make certain there are no other such files lurking in the Support File Search Path locations anywhere, then do you really not get the same problems occurring?  I just can't picture any way that such problems could be coming from that, so I'm guessing there's something else causing them, which would not be fixed by removing that file.

[paullimapa]

Seems like your AutoCAD system is corrupted but definitely not by your alert message.

Something else is the cause.

You can try starting up AutoCAD in safemode which doesn't load any add-ons to see if the problem occurs:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-launch-an-A...

Or worse case reset AutoCAD to defaults:

https://resources.imaginit.com/support-blog/how-to-manually-reset-an-autocad-based-profile-back-to-d.... 

[joeparisi83]

What I've had to do to restore CAD is to remove the acaddoc file, then reset CAD to factory settings.

Actually, now that I mention it, the .lsp file is not really changing my settings, it's changing the settings. I really don't have anything that's really customized. But I did find it strange that all of a sudden, CAD wasn't recognizing commands (as I said, it takes a few tries), and that command aliases were out of order.

[pendean]

command CAD?
... it can't locate the .pgp file?
...the .lsp file is not really changing my settings, it's changing the settings?

Share that file here please, plus screenshots of your ABOUT command pop-up then the expanded section labelled PATIAL CUSTOMIZATION FILES in your CUI command pop-up: looks like you have it doing way more that most of us do.

[joeparisi83]

Hi @pendean ,

Sorry for taking long to reply. I have temporarily disabled the 'acaddoc.lsp' as I am currently working on a project. I'll have to circle back to this when I have some downtime. Should I bump this thread or just start a new one when the time comes?