override drawing units on startup

[samifox]

hi

 

I open lots of drawing that comes from different authors and their units setting varied, every time I need to open units dialog box and set it to the way I prefer. 

 

I want to write it in an SCR or DIESEL script and load it automatically with each drawing.

 

what is the best method to write it and to load it with each drawing that I open?

THanks

 

 

[BIGAL]

Search here for startup, autoload, acaddoc.lsp holds the answer.

[rkmcswain]

On 9/14/2018 at 1:09 AM, samifox said:

hi

 

I open lots of drawing that comes from different authors and their units setting varied, every time I need to open units dialog box and set it to the way I prefer. 

 

I want to write it in an SCR or DIESEL script and load it automatically with each drawing.

 

what is the best method to write it and to load it with each drawing that I open?

THanks

 

 

 

Is there some reason you are saying SCR or DIESEL only?

This is exactly what the "Acaddoc.lsp" file is for. You can put your variable settings in there and it will execute whenever a drawing is loaded. AutoCAD only loads the first "Acaddoc.lsp" it finds based on the order of the support file search path, so you can get creative about the location of this file to accomplish specific tasks.

 

Example:

(setvar "luprec" 4)
(setvar "lunits" 4)
(setvar "unitmode" 1)
(princ "Acaddoc.lsp loaded....   ")