Tutorial : Automation with scripts (Part-5)

Run your scripts on multiple files at once

Hi Everyone,

So, we all now have an idea about scripts and I assume, most of you have tried your hands on it and must have created some scripts also.

For friends who have just joined the series here are the links for the previous posts of the series :

Part - 1          Part - 2          Part - 3          Part - 4

If you need a topic on which you wish to create a script for, here are few,

• Purging
• Creating standard layers in a drawing
• Save drawings to a  previous version of AutoCAD
• Setting up your AutoCAD system variables to your choice
• etc. etc.

You can find more if you observe your day to day work closely.

Well now that you have written a script to purge or to save drawings to an earlier version of AutoCAD.
What to do next? You have 100's of drawings and you need them to be purged and saved to an earlier version. What will you do?

Opening each file and running script on each of them is not a practical solution.

So, what you actually want is to process a script on multiple drawings. There are multiple methods to do this.
But the easiest is to use ScriptPro. It's a free software from Autodesk. You can download it from following links.

ScriptPro 32bit download now
ScriptPro 64bit download now

There are another way to process your scripts on multiple drawings. I will share that in my next post of this series.

Thanks for taking time off to read the blog from your busy schedules.

- Abhay Chauhan

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