Topic: Loading numerous lisp files without slowing CAD down

[hyposmurf]

Whats the best way to go about having a number of lisps loading in AutoCAD.I realise that you can have a lisp file fire up at start up time with a collection of all your favourate lisps.This however can make slow CAD up. There is another way where you can have them sitting in the background awaiting foir the command to be called and then they load themselves ready to carry out that command.This way saves memory, I saw the method on a website but cant for the life of me find where it was.

[CAB]

http://theswamp.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=24450&sid=94bec9d4170cb5134ab800844edfab65#24450

Do a search on AutoLoad

[Crank]

Autoload or:

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^c^c^p(if (not c:program)(load "program")) ^Pprogram


[Kerry]

You're probably thinking of Autoload .. defined and demonstrated in the Acad200xDoc.lsp file.

essentially it just makes a placeholder function with load instructions untill the initial definition is run, which loads the full definition and runs it.

like this ?
(autoload "3darray" '("3darray"))

You may want to update the  AI_ffile function though ..

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(defun ai_ffile (app)
  (or (findfile (strcat app ".lsp"))
      (findfile (strcat app ".fas")) ; added kwb
      (findfile (strcat app ".vlx")) ; added kwb
      (findfile (strcat app ".exp"))
      (findfile (strcat app ".exe"))
      (findfile (strcat app ".arx"))
      (findfile app)
  )
)

[Kerry]

heh, I should preview before I post, or speed up a little ..

[hyposmurf]

I hear autoload maybe  what I want. Thanks

[nivuahc]

You should try Autoload

There's some info about it somewhere around here...

[ronjonp]

You might wanna use this to create the autoload lines if you have many to do.

http://www.theswamp.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=52244#52244

Ron

[Crank]

Here is also some info about whitch goes where to optimize the booting of Autocad.