File open

Patrik Sparrman
Patrik Sparrman
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Hi, in V7 I could make a menu with some start templates just by adding    _open;drawing1.dwg   at the command line in the definition.

How do I achiev this in V13.

Comments

  • Roy Klein Gebbinck
    Roy Klein Gebbinck
    [code]^c^cfiledia;off;_open;X:/Path/Drawing1.dwg;filedia;on[/code]
    Although I would use the NEW command for templates.
  • Patrik Sparrman
    Patrik Sparrman

    Roy !! FANTASTIC !

    You finally answered my question from 2005. http://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/5842

    GREAT I'm gonna use it. ;)

  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill
    Patrik,

    as Roy hinted you could achieve the same by using templates. You can convert any drawing to a template by using _SAVEAS, then selecting the .dwt file option. You can also simply rename .dwg -> .dwt to convert them to templates.

    The major advantage of a template (.dwt) over a drawing (.dwg), is that BricsCAD will start a new drawing based on a copy of the the selected template. This removes the chance of accidentally mucking up the original template file. If you instead open a .dwg, then you must make sure you first save it as something else, which is easy to forget. Using templates instead of .dwg becomes much more important if you have multiple users.

    The following _SETTINGS control the default template, and location of your template files.
    BASEFILE
    TemplatePath

    Regards,

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts

  • Patrik Sparrman
    Patrik Sparrman
    YES ! I have already done this. The main thing is I never realized the functionality was there. I never saw the NEW command changing shape. It has as far as I knew always worked as QNEW does now.
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