Next, open Windows Explorer and go to C:/Program Files/ACAD 2000/Support/ and open the file called ACAD2000DOC.LSP. The location of your ACAD folder may vary depending on the installation settings. To open the file, simply double click it. Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and add the following lines:
(command "zoom" "e")
(command "qsave")
(command "close")
Save this file and start AutoCAD. Close the current drawing (DRAWING.DWG) and click the open button. Choose as many files as you want to change, and click ok.
Now, sit back and watch as ACAD does your work for you! When you are done, close ACAD2k, remove those 3 lines of code from your ACAD2000DOC.LSP file, save it, and restart ACAD2k. Can't get much easier than that!
One thing I should mention is that the file ACAD2000DOC.LSP is a new LISP file that is automatically loaded when you start ACAD. The ACAD2000DOC.LSP is a good location to place your LISP code if you are unsure where to place it, but want it to start when you run ACAD.
In other news, Autodesk is about ready to ship version 2.0 of Architectural Desktop. We should receive ours in about a month or so, and I'll let you know what it looks like.
If you're like most people, you're probably left wanting more in the way of hatches out of ACAD's supplied hatches. You can always hunt around on the net trying to find more PAT files, but in r14 it could be a real problem trying to get them into it, or at least trying to get the slide library to match the list of patterns in the ACAD.PAT file. In A2k they have modified how the hatches' slide library works. No longer do you have to create a slide and try to place it in the ACAD.SLD file. Instead when you click on the picture next to the word Slide, or the button with three "..." next to the name of the pattern it takes you to a new layout of the slides. These are actually re-created every time you click those two buttons.
