NewDrawing Event In VB.NET With AutoCAD

Hi,

I was wondering how this event works, or maybe, I should use another event....

I have an active acadapplication variable. what i want to do is the following:

When a user creates a new drawing. I want to catch that event and rename the drawing and save it this way. Seems simple, but when i put (something like) this in the NEW Drawign event AUTOCAD throws a exception...

newdrawingEVENT
--
myAutocadApp.activedocument.saveas("Test.DWG")

well i guess this throws the exception.

Where should i put this code to get this to work?

 

AutoCAD will not allow you to save a drawing with the same name as another drawing that is already open. Could that be source of your error?

 

That I can tell vb does not catch the new drawing.



Maybe if you loop through all open docs and do a if then statement to see if the drawing name starts with mid(Acad_doc.name,1,7)="Drawing" then continue with the routine.



 



Andy



 



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Hi,

I was wondering how this event works, or maybe, I should use another event....

I have an active acadapplication variable. what i want to do is the following:

When a user creates a new drawing. I want to catch that event and rename the drawing and save it this way. Seems simple, but when i put (something like) this in the NEW Drawign event AUTOCAD throws a exception...

newdrawingEVENT
--
myAutocadApp.activedocument.saveas("Test.DWG")

well i guess this throws the exception.

Where should i put this code to get this to work?