Attaching Multiple tif's to separate drawings?

[ahb001]

Hello all,

I have about 1500 .tif files that I need to attach to drawings. Is it possible to write a script or macro of some sort that will automate this process?

I know how to insert them manually in raster design, but the number of files would be very time consuming. I am using AutoCAD 2009.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MSasu]

For sure you can use a script to automate this task. Create a BAT file in the same folder with those TIFF files and paste there the code below - run that file to get the list of the files to insert.

DIR /b *.TIF > fileslst.txt

After I suggest you to use Excel to create the script lines.

[MSasu]

Your script file should look like:

_NEW  _IMAGE _A C:\\TiffFiles\\TiffFile1st.TIF 0,0 1 0 _ZOOM _E _SAVE C:\\DWGFiles\\DWGFile1st.DWG _CLOSE
_NEW  _IMAGE _A C:\\TiffFiles\\TiffFile2nd.TIF 0,0 1 0 _ZOOM _E _SAVE C:\\DWGFiles\\DWGFile2nd.DWG _CLOSE
_NEW  _IMAGE _A C:\\TiffFiles\\TiffFile3rd.TIF 0,0 1 0 _ZOOM _E _SAVE C:\\DWGFiles\\DWGFile3rd.DWG _CLOSE

Adjust the colored parts to match your requirements - path of TIFF file, insertion point, scale factor, rotation angle and target DWG file's path.
Please take care that after _NEW you should let 2 spaces; also the script should end with an empty line. Save this file with SCR extension.
It is very important to don't have spaces in TIFF or DWG paths, since those will be treated as <ENTER>.

Call the SCRIPT command, you will be asked to point to the said script file.

[ahb001]

Thanks, I got it working...... sort of.

I created a test file on my desktop and the script works perfectly.

The files I need to work with are on our server and the file path has spaces in it. The script gives an error on the first space every time. Is there a way to ignore the space in the file path?

[MSasu]

Try to contain that path with quotation marks (").

_NEW  _IMAGE _A "C:\\TiffFiles\\TiffFile1st.TIF" 0,0 1 0 _ZOOM _E _SAVE "C:\\DWGFiles\\DWGFile1st.DWG _CLOSE"

[ahb001]

I tried that. It just says enter file name on the command bar at that point.

[ahb001]

I am just trying to insert it at this point. This is what my script looks like:

_NEW _IINSERT "G:\Engineering\CURRENT JOBS\PLANT\11153 DCS Migration Execute Phase\DRAWINGS\WORKING SET\LOOPS\HEATH1.TIF"

This is what shows up in the AutoCAD text window:

Command: _IINSERT
Command:
Enter image file name: "G:\Engineering\CURRENT JOBS\PLANT\11153
DCS Migration Execute Phase\DRAWINGS\WORKING SET\LOOPS\HEATH1.TIF"
"G:\Engineering\CURRENT JOBS\PLANT\11153 DCS Migration Execute
Phase\DRAWINGS\WORKING SET\LOOPS\HEATH1.TIF" was not found or is not valid.

[MSasu]

Seems that the path you used isn'y valid of the file is not available.
Please past the line below on AutoCAD's command prompt - if the result will be "nil" then you should re-check the path.

(findfile "G:\\Engineering\\CURRENT JOBS\\PLANT\\11153 DCS Migration Execute Phase\\DRAWINGS\\WORKING SET\\LOOPS\\HEATH1.TIF")

[ahb001]

Well, if I copied the path and entered it manually, it worked. Just wouldnt work when the script ran. I got it to work though, I think I was missing a space or blank line. Thanks for all your help.