Topic: Start acad.exe from a batch file

[dubb]

I am trying to run acad.exe from a batch file.

Why does this not work for me?

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@echo off
taskkill /IM "notepad.exe" /F
TIMEOUT /T 3
start "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2021" acad.exe

[Crank]

If the file path contains a space within a folder name, you need to enclose that folder name in double quotes.

So I think (not tested) , you could use:

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START C:\"Program Files"\Autodesk\"AutoCAD 2021"\acad.exe
or:

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START "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2021\acad.exe"

[dubb]

Thanks my friend! That did it. Its confusing how dos handles spaces in directory names.

If the file path contains a space within a folder name, you need to enclose that folder name in double quotes.

So I think (not tested) , you could use:

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START C:\"Program Files"\Autodesk\"AutoCAD 2021"\acad.exe
or:

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START "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2021\acad.exe"

[BIGAL]

If your old enough file names were 8 characters, same with directories and a no no was a space so used - or _.

Lisp using command can fail on say a block having a space in its name, need to use \\ etc to work.

[d2010]

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START "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2021\acad.exe"

You can execute assoc.exe and ftype.exe at ms-dos-console
  assoc mnc [enter]
  winstart.bat  AutoCADUtilityDefaults[enter]
You see Top-associate list of Extension Filename.
If you execute directly from explorer.exe , then you run "notepad.exe winstart.bat"

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.mnc=AutoCADCompiledMenu
.ads=AutoCADADSAppFile
.ahp=AutoCADHelpFile
.bak=AutoCADBackupDWGFile
.bpl=AutoCADBatchPlotListFile
.dfs=AutoCADUtilityDefaults
.hdx=AutoCADHelpIndex
.iff=AutoCADIFFRasterFile
.old=AutoCADOriginalDrawing
.pcp=AutoCADPlotConfigurationParameters