Import multiple dwgs into drawing as individual blocks

[supermonkey]

Hi all,

 

My work have recently "upgraded" to Autocad LT 23 from an older full Autocad & as a result, I can no longer run my time saving Lisp routines.

 

We use a third party program which exports several dwg files per job. I had been using lisp to insert each dwg file as a block in my drawing, all spaced out along a row (eg block chart or insertblks).

 

Is there a way to do this without lisp? Everything i've found would mean importing one at a time.

 

Thanks

[ReMark]

I believe it could be done with a macro.

[BIGAL]

Changing to say Bricscad would have been a better move.

 

Anyway you could maybe do something in excel its very easy to copy a column of commands to the command line.

 

[supermonkey]

thanks both for your replies.

 

I agree about Bricscad having used it in the past, but I am not in charge!

 

The spreadsheet idea is a good one - but the insert command just brings up the blocks paellete. I'm not sure how I reference the dwg file & it's path?

 

I've tried the following with no luck:

insert "C:\\USERS\\USER\\DESKTOP\\DRAWING.DWG" "0,0" 1 1 0

insert "C:\\USERS\\USER\\DESKTOP\\DRAWING.DWG" pt "" "" ""

-insert;C:\\USERS\\USER\\DESKTOP\\DRAWING.DWG;\;;

[tombu]

For pathnames us foreword slash (/) not the backslash (\)

About Special Control Characters in Command Macros

(\) Pauses for user input (cannot be used with accelerators). You actually used (\) to pause for user input on your last try.

Maybe: -insert;C:/USERS/USER/DESKTOP/DRAWING.DWG;\;;

[BIGAL]

Watch out for spaces in file names or directories maybe -insert;"C:/USERS/USER/DESKTOP/DRAWING.DWG";\;;