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Actually I think I resolved most of these issues. The printer you referenced doesn't seem to work with a batch print. I wish there was better documentation of the print function from VBA.

Can anyone tell me how to print a series of drawings using the VBA printing PLOT object to print to a PDF? I am having several problems with this. It works fine on my machine with an older version of Distiller, but not everyone here has distiller and I can't seem to find the version I have...

I am trying to determine if a drawing is longer Vertically than it is Horizontally. If it is I want to rotate the drawing by 90 degrees. Does anyone have any idea how to check the max dimensions using VBA and then how to rotate the drawing? I used to do this in Lisp using the following...

That was pretty funny. Thanks for the insight Borgunit.

It's not a BETA, But it might be a Virus. I just thought it was wierd and wondered if anyone else had the same thing.

it happens when ACAD starts up. Actually I haven't seen it in a few months but I have an old screen shot of the error and was wondering what it is.

Does anyone have any idea what the autocad Error "Blue" means? This is all I have. It is an exclamation mark and the word "Blue" and just an OK button.

Can anyone tell me how to get the maximum height and width of the actual drawing objects in a DWG? I have several drawings that are rotated 90degrees from the usual position in order to facillitate an older printing program. I want to write a program that compares the height of the drawing to...

I am using a VBA macro to open and print a series of drawings. Currently, VBA will Regen any drawings made with an older version of AutoCAD before it does the print. I would like to prevent this if possible. Does anyone know how I can turn off the REGEN when I open a drawing? Here is the code I...

Does anyone know a good way to avoid the prompt for filename and view output in Acrobat when printing to Acrobat Distiller? I can specify a .pc3 file but then it plays havoc with my print settings and my drawings come out all screwy. What I would like to do is print the drawings to PDF...

Thanks IFRS you rock!

IFRs I am not sure how it would work. I have tried using the autolisp startup file to run a vba app but I just got an error. Do you have any idea how to do this?

Borgunit, This doesn't seem to work. I cant quite get it to work with VBA from autocad. I already have the SHfolder.dll file on my machine but I can't seem to access SHGetSpecialFolder. Soat this point I can't seem to use this. Also this doesn't seem to work in VBA for autocad. Do you have a...

We use random part numbers for our small parts inventory, All of which begin with PC so you can have PC001234 is a lock washer for a motor bolt and part number PC001235 is a blower fan for a 500Hp Motor. Believe me , the only sensible way to do it is logical part numbers. For our VFD products...

Is there any function in VBA autocad that will return the full path of either the My Documents or Desktop folders? object.GetSpecialFolder only returns windows,temp or system folders.

this works fine, Thanks WMO. I would still like to run a macro at startup though If anyone knows how to do this, let me know.

I want to have a button that runs a VBA macro when clicked. I don't really care if I have to run this macro(Although it would increase portability) or I have to set it up in autocad. The code slice above creates a new toolbar, adds one button to it and docks it to the top left of the toolbars It...

I already load the VBA Apps from the startup suite. I am using the following sub to make the toolbar and button. Sub addtoolbar() Dim mytoolbar As AcadToolbars Dim MyButton As AcadToolbar Dim objmenugroup As AcadMenuGroup Dim newbutton As AcadToolbarItem Set...

Can anyone tell me how to run a VBA macro every time I launch AutoCad? I have a Macro button that I want to add to the toolbar. I use a VBA sub called "AddToolbar" but the next time I Launch Acad the toolbar button is gone. So, what I want to do is set autucad to run "AddToolbar" everytime I...

Can anyone tell me how to run a VBA macro every time I launch AutoCad? I have a Macro button that I want to add to the toolbar. I use a VBA sub called "AddToolbar" but the next time I Launch Acad the toolbar button is gone. So, what I want to do is set autucad to run "AddToolbar" everytime I...