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I saw an article about connecting to a Dev Drive (Z:) in a search. You can research the topic "How do I give myself full permissions in Windows 10."

A few sites I trust besides Cadtutor: http://www.lee-mac.com/programs.html https://www.afralisp.net/ https://jtbworld.com/autolisp-visual-lisp https://autolisp-exchange.com/ https://gilecad.azurewebsites.net/Lisp.aspx Got to be responsible though put them in a folder in both the Support File Search Path and Trusted Folders. I also don't download any compiled code, lisp and dcl only.

Here.. this is generally a good place to get advice and snippets of LISPS. Got point to note generally to pay attention to anything you download, it should always go through a virus checker. Noting that a LISP can be opened simply with notepad - if it is anything other then be suspicious (especially perhaps an exe file). LISPS are written generally with real words so if you get one that isn't then be suspicious also. However for now, you can always ask for advice and if you need anything specific ask here and people will be able to point you in the right direction

Assuming you have Excel, open office or similar spreadsheet program it seams weird to me to use a program that is not designed to handle tables of data to do what the native program is designed to do. If the scale of the issue is about 20 files I reckon you would be quicker to just open then all with the spreadsheet and 'save as' rather than spending the same amount of time researching, asking about and writing a LISP to do that, and then there is testing afterwards. When I am working my goal of automation is to make more time in the day to get a cup of tea, not spend more time and get fewer cups. However if you are likely to do this regularly then it might be worth writing something to do this... but is could be a slow running LISP. Unless someone has something really clever, my instinct is that AutoCAD won't be able to save an XLS file directly as CSV, you'll have to read the data to memory, create a CSV file and write the data to that. Which like you say takes time with GetExcel Lisp. Can I ask why you want to do all this with LISP rather than with a spreadsheet?

Did this message happen to appear on a school lab computer by any chance?

Not much help, but AutoCAD 2005 was way before Windows 10 and there can be quirks when running old software on newer OS. You'll probably need to search around and see what sort of work arounds others have used to help with any and all quirks. Usually things of this sort are permissions related, you might look into the permissions.

Thank you for your kind words, Dadgad. However, in the words of the Civil War General Tecumseh Sherman, "I will not accept if nominated (re: Project Proof Reader position) and will not serve if elected."

Like mhupp saveas csv is a feature of excel. Yes could open then read a excel direct writing a csv from Autocad, but is it worth all the effort compared to save csv. If you want it will cost you.

It's possible that they were in the process of updating the project instructions and someone left out some of the pages while doing so. That's why a review of the instructions, by a second person, before publishing a project PDF file would be recommended. Just sloppy work all around in my opinion.

This will explode all block in the drawing in model or paper space that is not on layer A3_TT with a simple ~. (defun C:blkExp (/ SS) (if (setq SS (ssget "_X" '((0 . "INSERT") (8 . "~A3_TT")))) ;the ~ = all layers not A3_TT (foreach ent (mapcar 'cadr (ssnamex SS)) (vla-explode (setq blk (vlax-ename->vla-object ent))) ;works on blocks on other tabs (vla-delete blk) ) ) )

What gets me is that if they know information is incorrect or missing how come they don’t fix it for other students?