Just discovered auto publish on save and I love it, but can the filename be changed?

[jjatho]

I output plenty of drawings that are 30+ paperspace layouts from a single 3D model, so the auto publish feature of outputting a single PDF for me is fantastic.

 

The one thing I would like to change/customize if possible is the output filename. For example, B250.dwg always saves as B250.pdf, which is fine, but I would like to automatically insert a date and time into the filename itself. The advantage would be saving a new PDF every time I save the .dwg rather than overwriting the same .pdf over and over.

 

Does anyone know if there's a way to customize this?

[Dadgad]

Have you considered the PLOT STAMP SETTINGS?

Yes, I know you are describing something different, but there are some other features which you might enjoy using,

like the user defined fields, which do enable some additional text.

[jjatho]

I looked into plot stamps and found them to be extremely limited. I use MTEXT in my title blocks with fields inserted for far, far more flexibility.

[Pablo Ferral]

I don't know a way to customise this, but you could look for a free program called 'renamer' which is pretty slick...

[BlackBox]

FWIW -

 

I haven't tested to know for sure, but methinks you could hook the CommandEnded Event with a simple Visual LISP Reactor to check if the file exists, and rename via sub-function:

 

(defun _Rename (filePath / newPath)
 (if (and (findfile filePath)
          (not
            (findfile
              (setq newPath
                     (strcat
                       (vl-filename-directory filePath)
                       (vl-filename-base filePath)
                       "_"
                       (menucmd "M=$(edtime,$(getvar,date),YYYY-MO-DD-HH-MM)")
                       "_"
                       (vl-filename-extension filePath)
                     )
              )
            )
          )
     )
   (vl-file-rename filePath newPath)
 )
)

[jjatho]

I've used plenty of AutoLISP but never any Visual LISP, so that would be new territory for me.