From the course: BIM Manager: Managing AutoCAD MEP & AutoCAD Civil 3D
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Automatically loading LISP
From the course: BIM Manager: Managing AutoCAD MEP & AutoCAD Civil 3D
Automatically loading LISP
- [Voiceover] It would be nice to automatically load a LISP routine every time a user opens a new drawing. By going into the custom user interface, or the CUI, we can tell AutoCad to load this LISP file every time. So, to get started, let's jump into AutoCad. I'm in AutoCad MEP, but you can go to Civil 3D or any other AutoCad. Now under "Get Started", let's click on "Start Drawing". The mold macro may still be left over from before. So before I do anything, what I want to do is clear that out. At the command prompt, I'm going to type in "mode macro". It's a command like anything else. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to type in a period for none and hit enter. It just gets it out of there, so we can make sure that everything's working. Hit escape a few times. Now what I want to do is type in CUI. That's the custom user interface, and I'm going to hit enter. It brings us into our custom user interface. Now I'm going to scroll down over here, and where it says LISP files, I'm going…
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