open multiple dwgs and run lsp

is there a way to open multiple dwgs freeze specified layers and run a lisp i already have?

The short answer is yes.

What are you programming in .Net, VBA Lisp?

im trying to learn lsp at the moment. taking some time though. I have 2 lisps that i need to run on one set of drwgs and 5 layers i need frozen on another set of dwgs. I was pretty sure it could be done but i have no idea how

I really need a way to open and freeze specified layers, ive gone through the first set and ran my two lisps, the second set is about 3 times as much.

wrote a quick lsp to freeze layers. pretty stuck on being able to run it on multiple dwgs.

Short answer is use programs like ScriptPro to run your lisp and freeze commands to all your drawings.

search the internet for something called xbatch

Here's a very quick tutorial for using ScriptPro. Just download it from Autodesk if you don't already have ScriptPro.

http://www.lazydrafter.com/autocad-tips/scriptpro/

thanks for the link i searched it and got some funky results.

There is a way to run a lisp on several folder -without script files.

Make the lisp to start automatically when a drawing is opened (you may use the Startup suit). Go to AutoCAD, click the File > Open and in the opened window select all the files to be processed. Press the open button and watch the screen.

I think Hurricane for autocad will do this for you!

OpenDwgsCmds- Executes commands and functions on all open drawings.

The CDC function, Current Drawing Commands, allows you to test these commands and functions on the current drawing. The ODC function, Open Drawings Commands, executes these commands and functions on all open drawings. There are several programming utilities included

VVA,

That's a cool and clean way of using lisp. I'll have to try that sometime. The problem I see is if I have to run it to over 100 drawings at a time, it will take up all the resources of my machine just to open them up and will take forever to do anything. It would be great if I only need to do the lisp to 20 or so drawings.

I personally use SuperScript as it's much faster then scriptpro since it doesn't open and close autocad for each dwg.

Opening 100+ even thousands of drawings is not a problem just close and save each one after you have run your lisp program in the script you only then have maybe 2 open ?

Open mydwg

runmylisp

Close Y

Run it overnight if time is a problem you will be suprised how quick it will do it though if there is no interaction required.

repeat as required