DKT Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Has anyone else had a problem with creating the ACADDOC file and then losing the Mechanical features? I've done it twice now, with a complete reinstall between the two. Once I add the network location to my support path (looking at my new ACADDOC file) I instantly lose all Mechanical commands. The second time, I didn't even have anything in the ACADDOC file besides a test alert to see if it worked. Anyone else with this problem or advice on what I'm doing wrong? Quote
JPlanera Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Creating the acaddoc? isnt it already located in your Acadm folder? Quote
DKT Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Whoops. That could explain my problems. I thought I was supposed to create a file named that and point the support directory to it. So now that I removed that link from my support locations, any thoughts on why Mechanical didn't start working again? Quote
JPlanera Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 acaddoc auto loads "acadm.lsp" which contains ALL mechanical info!!! delete support path, delete your homemade acaddoc.lsp and restart autocad. what happens? Quote
BlackBox Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Whoops. That could explain my problems. I thought I was supposed to create a file named that and point the support directory to it. So now that I removed that link from my support locations, any thoughts on why Mechanical didn't start working again? Removing the support path will not automatically load the correct file, however once the incorrect path has been removed, typing this at the command line *should* fix: (load "acaddoc.lsp") Also, in the future, findfile may be very useful, example: (findfile "acaddoc.lsp") Hope this helps! Quote
DKT Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Odd. Now all of the commands are defined, but they don't do anything. All the icons are back. Everything "looks" there, it just doesn't call the actual command anymore. Instead of an error, it calls an empty command. Quote
BlackBox Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) I don't suppose the REDEFINE command will work for 'Mechanical' specific commands, ehh? Edited January 20, 2011 by BlackBox Typo Quote
JPlanera Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Why yes it does... I was going to suggest a test command preceded with "." like .AMFILLET2D and see what happens. I plum forgot about that REDEFINE thing-a-ma-jigger.... on second thought... REDEFINE does NOT work with mechanical commands........ oh the horror Edited January 20, 2011 by JPlanera DOHH! Quote
DKT Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 I'm not quite sure what happened, but I took a look at another computers list of support paths and somehow I lost three of my mechanical ones :/ I path-ed them all correctly again and it works just perfectly. Thanks for the help! Quote
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