Hi Dan. Regrettably I have not been able to get it to work with express tools burst lisp routine but I have some other cleansing activities I am planning to use it for that I am confident it will work with.
For some reason, I had to rewrite the code when using the Core Console by putting an LISP code directly into the script file. You might try that with Burst if you are currently trying to load it from the script. That doesn't make any sense to me, since the Core Console should work just like the command line with the GUI. I had to do that, which makes it more cumbersome to trouble-shoot code.
if i have a script that has all the command line steps to plot a dwg, how can i use core console to run the script and then save the pdf to a folder with the same dwg name then move to the next dwg in the folder and run the script again on multiple .dwg files
A script can run AutoLISP code if written correctly. That is the most effective way to plot to a PDF from each layout (I assume that you would want the PDF to be plotted from a layout and not from the model space tab, but you can do either.) If you execute AutoCAD from a batch file using the FOR function in DOS, you can go through each drawing file sequentially, cycle through the layouts, save a PDF file of each (turn off the "open PDF" option so it doesn't hang up after plotting), close the Core Console when done, and move on to the next DWG file.
Hi @DanAbbott-SMCC, I'm wanting to embed thousands of CAL, TIFF, GP4, etc files into various individual DWG drawings. It's easy enough using RASTER, but the challenge I have is that I have thousands of these drawings that I want to convert and embed in DWG format. I've written a script to do the task, however, while running it tends to crash the AutoCAD UI after a few hundred are processed. Is there a headless way of doing this using a similar software as AcCoreConsole.exe?
I need a little more information. Are you trying to embed the same files in each of the drawings? Can you send me the script with some sample files -- both the ones you are embedding and the drawings into which you are embedding them? dabbott@smccme.edu is my email. I've never crashed AutoCAD doing this, but using the Core Console should make crashes less likely. At any rate, I don't think I quite understand the process you are using, but I'd be happy to see if I can help once I see the script file.
Thanks Dan for sharing your findings. Greatly appreciated. Just about to try it myself
Best of luck!
Did the core console work for you?
Hi Dan. Regrettably I have not been able to get it to work with express tools burst lisp routine but I have some other cleansing activities I am planning to use it for that I am confident it will work with.
For some reason, I had to rewrite the code when using the Core Console by putting an LISP code directly into the script file. You might try that with Burst if you are currently trying to load it from the script. That doesn't make any sense to me, since the Core Console should work just like the command line with the GUI. I had to do that, which makes it more cumbersome to trouble-shoot code.
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if i have a script that has all the command line steps to plot a dwg, how can i use core console to run the script and then save the pdf to a folder with the same dwg name then move to the next dwg in the folder and run the script again on multiple .dwg files
A script can run AutoLISP code if written correctly. That is the most effective way to plot to a PDF from each layout (I assume that you would want the PDF to be plotted from a layout and not from the model space tab, but you can do either.) If you execute AutoCAD from a batch file using the FOR function in DOS, you can go through each drawing file sequentially, cycle through the layouts, save a PDF file of each (turn off the "open PDF" option so it doesn't hang up after plotting), close the Core Console when done, and move on to the next DWG file.
I will look at adapting the program we wrote for PWD :)
It will be tricky with all those calls to different lisp programs, but I think it is doable.
Hi @DanAbbott-SMCC,
I'm wanting to embed thousands of CAL, TIFF, GP4, etc files into various individual DWG drawings. It's easy enough using RASTER, but the challenge I have is that I have thousands of these drawings that I want to convert and embed in DWG format. I've written a script to do the task, however, while running it tends to crash the AutoCAD UI after a few hundred are processed. Is there a headless way of doing this using a similar software as AcCoreConsole.exe?
I need a little more information. Are you trying to embed the same files in each of the drawings? Can you send me the script with some sample files -- both the ones you are embedding and the drawings into which you are embedding them? dabbott@smccme.edu is my email.
I've never crashed AutoCAD doing this, but using the Core Console should make crashes less likely. At any rate, I don't think I quite understand the process you are using, but I'd be happy to see if I can help once I see the script file.