changing Drawing name at runtime

[vivekgrs]

hi everybody,

 

I am working in autocad 2004 vba. I NEED TO CHANGE MY DRAWING NAME AT RUNTIME THRU VBA. CAN ANYONE HELP ME REGARDING THIS ISSUE

 

REGARDS

 

M.VIVEK

[MSasu]

Did you tried the below approach?

 

ThisDrawing.SaveAs NewDrawingName, ac2004_dwg
Kill OldDrawingName

 

Regards,

[vivekgrs]

hi msasu,

Thanks for your help. save as command will save the drawing in particular folder.that's correct.

 

without saving the drawing. i need to change the drawing name or show some names in title bar of autocad.

 

 

Regards

 

m.arunachalam

[MSasu]

So, your goal is to display a custom message in AutoCAD’s title bar, not to change drawing’s name, is this correct? There is a property that store title bar’s content, but I’m afraid it is Read Only.

 

ThisDrawing.Application.Caption

 

May use instead the "MODEMACRO" system variable that will allow you to display a custom message on status bar (bottom of drawing).

 

ThisDrawing.SetVariable "MODEMACRO", "My info message on Status Bar"

 

Regards,

[vivekgrs]

hi msasu,

 

I tried with Thisdrawing.application.caption. its not working bocz of its read only property.

 

 

now iam going to use saveas method which u had told me previously.

 

 

thank u for ur help

 

 

Regards

 

m.vivek

[MSasu]

You welcome!

For sure, if you save the drawing with a new name and delete the old file, this will appear to user as a name change at run-time.

 

Regards,