Hi I've written a batch routine that simulates the etransmit command & plots to a dwf. I'm trying to find a way of speeding things up a bit if possible. I've set the applications visibility to false. This seems to help a bit, but the plot progress dialog still appears. Is there a way of turning this off? In Excel there was something called ScreenUpdating which could be set to false. Is there a similar command in Acad? Is there anything else? TIA Dave F.