Script Pro

[MisterJingles]

Hi guys

 

Im looking to investigate further into the writing of scripts.

I read through thecadgeek tutorial and have a better idea and a greater desire to take it further. (Any other good tutorials you can suggest?)

 

What is ScriptPro? A program with which you can write scripts? Does it aid you in the process? I cannot seem to install it though, it tells me

 

"Installation of the ScriptPro requires that an Autocad related product already be installed.

 

Click OK to exit Setup"

 

Im running 2010 LT, is there something which LT setup does not install which is needed to run ScriptPro?

 

Thanks

Rob

[NBC]

Reading the following:

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2009/04/autocad-scriptpro-updated-for-autocad-2010.html

and

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2007/04/download_new_sc.html

it appears that ScriptPro is based on VB language, and is not intended for use with any versions of LT

[MisterJingles]

Shew thats a bummer.

 

Is there another option for me?

 

Thanks NBC.

[dbroada]

doesn't LT come with action recorder? The demos I have seen for full AutoCAD imply this is similar to what I do here with my own script writer.

[MisterJingles]

Hi Dave

 

Yeah it does. Are you suggesting I use that to work out how to write scripts?

 

Regards

[dbroada]

that is how I think it works

never actually tried it as I have a script writer anyway but this looked more versitile than mine.

[MisterJingles]

Ya I gather that scripts are really a sequence of responses to Autocads command prompts.

I want to know where I can learn how to set up multiple commands across multiple drawings etc.

Surely there is a more in depth tutorial out there?

[dbroada]

I don't know of one - I just learnt by trial and (a lot of) error. We constructed our multiple drawing scripts by going to DOS and sending a file structure to a text file. That could then be opened in excell and with lots of find|replace a script file was created that would open a series of drawings and excecute the commands on each of them. It would look a bit like this....

 

SDI
1
open
y
"h:\Design_Office\HSM10349\Loops\Output\2009-12-18\HSM10349-05-LD-0001-069.dwg"
plot
y
Model
PR06
A3
m
l
n
e
f
0,0
y
STL Mono.ctb
y
n
n
n
y
open
y
"h:\Design_Office\HSM10349\Loops\Output\2009-12-18\HSM10349-10-LD-0001-174.dwg"
plot
y
Model
PR06
A3
m
l
n
e
f
0,0
y
STL Mono.ctb
y
n
n
n
y
qnew
Y

 

although that has been produced with our batch plot program.

 

Good luck with your search for tutorials.

[MBSupport]

We developed Multi-Batch in 2001 and to date it has worked successfully with AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD Full versions. Similar to ScriptPro it allows you to automate many commands in AutoCAD. It has five wizards for creating new routines including two for plotting, plus over 60 standard routines to get you started.

 

Script routines can be very powerful and a great timesaver. Once you know what they can do you can start to set up your work around them. For example you can set up your drawing sheet to make it easier to fill in for issuing, change attributes, extract attributes, purge, recover, audit, plot, save as, xref etc. Any command that can be entered on the command line can be automated to run on hundreds of drawings, saving you time and money.

 

See what current users have to say at http://www.multi-batch.com/testimonials.htm

 

Download a demo now and see what savings can be made

 

Patrick

http://www.multi-batch.com