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CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: dubb on May 21, 2020, 04:46:29 PM

Title: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: dubb on May 21, 2020, 04:46:29 PM

I want to create a dwg shortcut that executes a script. I can only find examples of Target strings where it needs to contain the exact location of acad.exe

Here is an example of a Target string that works.

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"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2018\acad.exe" /t "\\server\cad\00_Templates\blank.dwg" /b "\\server\cad\10_CAD Support\Scripts\foo-script"
Is there a way to edit the Target string so that I don't need to define the exact location of acad.exe?

I tried this. It didn't work.

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"\\server\cad\00_Templates\blank.dwg" /b "\\server\cad\10_CAD Support\Scripts\foo-script"

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: ronjonp on May 21, 2020, 05:06:13 PM

Not exactly sure what you're asking but shouldn't this need the file extension to work?

"\\server\cad\10_CAD Support\Scripts\foo-script.scr"

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: dubb on May 21, 2020, 05:21:18 PM

Surprisingly it works with or without the .scr file extension.

Quote from: ronjonp on May 21, 2020, 05:06:13 PM

Not exactly sure what you're asking but shouldn't this need the file extension to work?

"\\server\cad\10_CAD Support\Scripts\foo-script.scr"

I was thinking about adding a cmd string to access the registry to get the default acad.exe directory followed by

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/t "\\server\cad\00_Templates\blank.dwg" /b "\\server\cad\10_CAD Support\Scripts\foo-script"

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: dubb on May 21, 2020, 07:07:33 PM

I tried loading the script using "command script". Still doesn't work.

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"\\server\cad\00_Templates\blank.dwg" (command "SCRIPT" "\\\\server\\cad\\10_CAD Support\\Scripts\\foo-script.scr")

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: ronjonp on May 22, 2020, 12:09:21 AM

Are you adding this to the autocad shortcut? Not sure where you're going with the command ?

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: dubb on May 22, 2020, 01:10:48 PM

Quote from: ronjonp on May 22, 2020, 12:09:21 AM

Are you adding this to the autocad shortcut? Not sure where you're going with the command ?

Its a shortcut for a dwg file. Not a shortcut for the autocad program itself.

Title: Re: dwg shortcut on different versions of AutoCAD
Post by: BIGAL on May 31, 2020, 09:18:49 PM

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