Recent content by adamwildon

Hi I have been writing some custom menus and would like to roll them out accross the firm if I placed the menus somewhere on the server, how can I get everyones AutoCAD LT to automatically find the custom menus and load them up each time they start AutoCAD LT? This will help as should any...

HI I am trying to plot multiple drawings from AutoCAD 2004 LT. However this is proving to be a problem as the publish command only allows me to create dwf files, I was sure that if I changed the page setup for the multiple plots it will force the plot to the plotter and not the dwf writer. I...

if you send me a screen shot of what you want to amend from your AutoCAD I may be able to help. awol@fsmail.net

Many thanks for that! however that is a lisp routine, I am currently using LT2004 which does not have the facility. I'll try chopping the code around a bit and see if I can get it to work, if I do I'll let you know. Thanks again!

after searching, no sorry. I could copy mine and send you the icon if you would like. I wish I could tell you more but I'm a command line person really, don't tend to use icons. Adam

Have you created custom icons before? you need to Right click on the UCS toolbar, add a custom button in the usual way by dragging a custom button onto the tool bar, select the properties tab, click on you new user defined button, enter the name/discription, then the macro should read ^C^C_ucs...

well what I would like to do is come up with a way of when issuing a drawing saving it automatically to a dated folder. I'm working with AutoCAD 2004 and not everyone that I deal with can open them therefore I would also like AutoCAD to save it to a release 2000 drawing, that's the easy bit...

take a look at your acad.mns file your custom toolbar should be wrtten in there, once you've found it, type in the missing command. Adam

In my opinion the layer 0 should only be used for inserting xrefs and say the title block, why glog your drawing up with any more layers like xrefs if you want to turn the xref off then unload it. I recently wrote a standard layer pull down and added a title block option as the users liked to...

Hi does anyone know how to save the current AutoCAD drawing into a dated folder using a script involving filedia 0 command is there some sort of standard windows scrip that might work?