eTransmit folder structure

[meinfilel]

Hello, everyone,

 

I'm trying to organize my workflow; I find myself using e-stransmit multiple times every day and would like to use a custom folder organization when adding my files to the final .zip file. Let' say I work in a .dwg file in a folder on my desktop and referencing files in that drawing from other folders that are located on Desktop (could be located in any other position, as well). When I'm done I wanna save the .dwg file with any references in a .zip file that will be e-mailed later. What I'm asking is a specific .zip folder tree: I want every reference to be a in a folder named "FOLDER_ALL" or whatever and the .dwg file to be in the same level as the folder but on its own. I'm attaching a simple chart to help you understand what I mean.

 

Ι've done some googling and even posted at autodesk forums but the answer I got was that it cannot be done through standard transmit, and maybe an addo-on is needed. I have some experience writing AutoLISP programs and would like some guidance to possibly implement what I'm asking for [I'm not sure it's achievable though].

 

 

I'm using autocad 2019.

 

Thanks in advance.

[BIGAL]

There is ways of doing ZIP possibly via Autocad I use a shell command to UNZIP files, I am sure ZIP Files would be similar.

 

(startapp (strcat "powershell -command Expand-Archive -Path '" filename "' -DestinationPath 'C:/GTA-CAD-TOOLS'"))

 

Ok 2nd step is that you can call email from Autocad not something I do. Need to google. 

[mhupp]

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=14793.0

[BIGAL]

Had a play, ok a couple of things note the ' it is used to enclose names with spaces in them so have shown destination that way also, use \\ for path. The * is a variable to do subdirectories not a file wild card.

 

(setq directory "'D:\\your directory\*'") ; do some form of get path etc
(startapp (strcat "powershell -command Compress-Archive -Path  " directory "  -DestinationPath 'D:\\Acadtemp\\archive.zip'"))

 

How to Zip (and Unzip) Files Using PowerShell (howtogeek.com)

[meinfilel]

Thank you both for your replies.

 

If I've gotten it right, I should write a script that will run an archiver through PowerShell,  in which the .dwg will be included as well as any other files I wish (all I have to do for the "extra" files is provide their location on the drive).

 

I'll start working on that and will come back reporting the results.

[BIGAL]

If you get stuck come back, next step is email zip from Autocad.