Trying to write a script
@Anonymous.shanks wrote:
....
Step 1 = script file
INSERTcompany P&IDTblk=e:\bctest
0,0 1 1 0
ERASE L(load "e:\\bctest\\bctest_update.lsp")
bctest_update
QUIT
Y....
On the Script part, I notice a couple of things:
If "INSERTcompany" is not a custom defined command name, and you mean it to be an INSERT command, you are missing a space after it. And if the Block name has a space in it, it will need to be wrapped in double-quotes, or AutoCAD's going to think "company" by itself is the Block name:
INSERT "company P&IDTblk"=e:\bctest
[I'm not sure without trying it whether maybe the whole blockname=filename stretch should be in double-quotes together: "company P&IDTblk=e:\bctest".]
Also, you will need another return to complete the selection for the Erase command.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
In addtion to Kent's advice:
- If the block already exists in the dwg file when you try to do this insert, acad will prompt you asking whether or not to redefine the block. So you will need to respond Y in that case. (if you know that will ALWAYS be true, then you can safely just add the Y response).
- I'm not sure but I believe you can just cancel out of the insert command instead of placing the block and then deleting it. By that time the block should already have been redefined (assuming you provided the Y response as noted above).
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
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Try INSERT "company P&IDTblk=e:\bctest". And are you certain that e:\bctest.dwg does actually exist (i.e. there could be a typo).
Type in (Findfile "e:\\bctest.dwg") at the command prompt. If it returns nil, then it's unable to find that file for some reason.
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@Anonymous.shanks wrote:
Doni49 - Where would i put the Y that your recommending?
The following was copy/pasted when I did something similar here -- the block name and filename/path are different. But the block does exist and the file does exist. So when I ran it, acad prompted me asking if I wanted to redefine the block. I answered Y. Then instead of actually providing an insertion coordinate, I canceled out of it -- but at that point, the block had already been redefined.
Command: -insert Enter block name or [?]: "_ClosedBlank=N:\CAD\Shared\Content\Symbols Library\General\DetailMarkA.dwg"
Block "_ClosedBlank" already exists. Redefine it? [Yes/No] <N>: y
Block "_ClosedBlank" redefined
Units: Inches Conversion: 0.0833
Specify insertion point or [Basepoint/Scale/X/Y/Z/Rotate]: *Cancel*
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@Anonymous.shanks wrote:
Kent - ok so i've edited it to look like this. But still getting the same error " cannot find specified drawing file"
Step 1 = script file
INSERT "company P&IDTblk"=e:\bctest
....
(load "e:\\bctest\\bctest_update.lsp")
....
Doni49 - Where would i put the Y that your recommending?
That (load) function makes it look like bctest on the e: drive is a folder, rather than a drawing. Insert can't bring a folder in, only a drawing. Unless there's also a drawing called bctest.dwg in the e: root directory, then you're missing a drawing file name, and it should be:
INSERT "company P&IDTblk"=e:\bctest\SomeDrawing
The Y would go right after that, if there will always already be a Block named "company P&IDTblk" in the drawing, because that's where it's going to ask you whether you want to redefine it. And I agree, you could just have it cancel the insertion once you've agreed to redefine it, rather than go through with it and then Erase it. Something like:
INSERT "company P&IDTblk"=e:\bctest\SomeDrawing Y ^C^C
and then immediately into the (load) function.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@Anonymous.shanks wrote:
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a.102.0.01.dwg
a.103.1.07.dwg
a.104.1.01.dwg
etc.......
company P&idTblk.dwg
....
script file
INSERT "kbi P&IDTblk"=c:\bctest\A* Y ^C^C
0,0 1 1 0
ERASE L(load "c:\\bctest\\bctest_update.lsp")
....
That INSERT line looks like it's going after multiple drawing names, which of course Insert cannot use as a source for a Block redefinition. Shouldn't it be something like:
INSERT "kbi P&IDTblk"=c:\bctest\a.102.0.01 Y ^C^C
instead?
Then, if you cancel it before completing the Insertion [and come to think of it, I don't recall whether ^C works as a cancel in a Script, the way it does in a command macro], then as described before, you must leave out the insertion point/scales/rotation and the Erase Last part, and go straight to the (load) function.
Kent Cooper, AIA