redefine "new" command...

I want to run a lisp file that i use to setup new files... i can't add it
to the acaddoc.lsp file becuase it will run every time a dwg opened and i
only want it to run when a new dwg is opened... can anyone help me???

 

You could have your code in AcadDoc.lsp, but check the DwgTitled system
variable. If the drawing is titled, don't run your code.

--
R. Robert Bell


I want to run a lisp file that i use to setup new files... i can't add it
to the acaddoc.lsp file becuase it will run every time a dwg opened and i
only want it to run when a new dwg is opened... can anyone help me???

 

Redefining the new command won't help you as far as lisp
is concerned. The new drawing, once activated, suspends the
redefined new command until you return to the previous drawing.

Instead have your code in acaddoc.lsp determine whether the
drawing just opened is new.

It is relatively easy to determine that a drawing is new.
Some possibilities:
1) Does it have any entities?
2) Check the time variables to see how long the drawing has been
edited. Under a minute is a guarantee that the drawing is new.

If you want to program at the application level, rather than at the
drawing level, then VBA is better suited.

 

Personally, I prefer to look at DwgTitled. BwaHaHa!!!

--
R. Robert Bell


…
It is relatively easy to determine that a drawing is new.
Some possibilities:
1) Does it have any entities?
2) Check the time variables to see how long the drawing has been
edited. Under a minute is a guarantee that the drawing is new.
…

 

Hi Robert.
Good point. Either would work well.

 

Neither of these absolutely indicates if a drawing is 'new'.

Prototype drawings can have entities.

Drawings can be generated automatically via programmatic means,
and have little or no edting time associated with them.

The DWGTITLED system variable is specfically for this purpose.

 

Tony,
Thanks. Didn't think about the programmatically created drawings
not having much time in them.

 

well, in case anyone cares... i used the dwgtitled... and an "IF"
statement... if dwgtitled = 0 run the routine, if it = 1 do nothing...
that works well for what i wanted to do... so now when i open an existing
drawings it opens as normal but when i open a new drawing it runs the setup
routine...