Autocad lisp open drawing

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Back to Topic Listing Previous Next. Filter by Lables. Message 1 of I am looking for a way to open a drawing from the current drawing, then run a few lisp commands in the just opened drawing, close that drawing, and then run a few lisp commands in the original drawing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Message 2 of I asked a similar question recently. Once you 'close' or 'open' yet another, you have to load the lisp again, and worse, you cannot send it a command to activate a function.. There are 2 ways around this.. Use a Script Then when we use PLOT command, it updates datalink first, then activate plot.

AutoCAD menu utilities loaded. It surely will use most updated value from excel files. We need to make sure datalinks in our files are updated before we send them.

We need to modify save and saveas command. You can modify them as your exercise. Discuss it here if you have problem. Do you think you can make use of acaddoc.

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Learn how your comment data is processed. I redefined the close function with a datalinkupdate write, and found that this created issues when the dwg has no data links.

Is there a way to make the datalinkupdate conditional on whether there are any datalinks in the dwg? In this Article Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Edwin Prakoso. Reply to cad 9 years ago. Meet the Authors. Get Connected. Yes, on reflection afterward I figured it might be something like that. I'm afraid I was a bit rushed, and didn't take the time to consult the help file.

I realize this is a very old thread, but I hope someone may be able to help. The above code has been very helpful to open drawings and set them active. However, using the vla-open function, you do not know if the drawing opened as read-only because another user already had the drawing open. My questions: How can you check a drawing to see if it is open by another user before you open it with your function? How can you check an already open drawing to see if it is read-only. In other words, errors result if you try to save a drawing that was opened as read-only.

I need to check current drawing's read-only status.