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Hi everyone, Semi-long time listener, first time caller. I wanted to say thanks for the help and tips I got from this site over the past 6 months. As I have been working on two autolisps, one called P0 the other P9. The do the same thing, kinda. P0 will pull the dwgname field and save it to the clipboard, allowing me to use it wherever without have to flip to the folders . . pick the file . . . hit F2 . . CTRL+C . . . then go back. P9 does the same thing, but adds dwgprefix + dwgname. I work in a third-party firm that uses several client projects with their different CAD standards. Some forbid using fields in the titleblocks for various reasons and like them hard coded. P9 is useful for when I'm jumping between sub-folders and need to plot to source folders. I can't use the PDFExport feature, as different clients use different standards and I need to make sure everything is good before going for each plot, mostly for peace of mind. I wanted to share these with you guys as a thank you and giving back to the community. My autolisps learning is only about 4 - 5 months old. FYI, I didn't know till literally a few days ago, from this very site, that one can right click the tab for the copy full path. lol P9.lsp P0.lsp

Autodesk has an Entitlement API if you’re planning on using the app store See Using Entitlement API with Lisp https://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2022/05/using-entitlement-api-with-lisp.html I have a couple of apps there that uses it, it’s pretty cool. Otherwise, it’s not worth spending a lot of time on this, its code that you have to maintain. Keep it simple, something like an XOR cipher and the drive serial is going to be enough. you can store this in the registry or a license file.

A lisp version hope fully works in LT. Change the xxx and path etc. (setq *files* (vla-get-files (vla-get-preferences (vlax-get-Acad-object)))) (setq paths (vla-get-SupportPath *files*)) (if (wcmatch paths "*XXX*") (princ) (vla-put-SupportPath *files* (strcat "C:\\XXX-CAD-TOOLS" ";" paths)) ) Copy the 1st two lines to the command line as a test in LT. You should see a list of your support paths C:\\Users\\XXXX\\AppData\\Roaming\\Bricsys\\BricsCAD\\V25x64\\en_US\\Support;D:\\Bricsys\\BricsCAD V24 en_US\\Support; Oh yeah if using Autocad need to add trusted paths, Trusted paths is a bit of why ? As you can set the paths so why have it. (if (> (vl-string-search "BricsCAD" (getvar 'acadver)) 0) (princ "Bricscad") (progn (setq oldtrust (getvar 'trustedpaths)) (if (wcmatch oldtrust "*XXX*") (princ) (setvar 'trustedpaths (strcat oldtrust ";" "c:\\XXX-CAD-TOOLS")) ) ) )

wow!! i cut paste that into the search bar and it immediately fired up using my last template ! brilliant i will have a play thank you.

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