Menu Item - With spaces

Hi

I am making a menu for some of our blocks and our path to the blocks has a
space in the path...ie C:/Company Standards/AutoCAD
Blocks/Stamps/Review.dwg

When I run the file its putting a hard return after the spaces.

Without changing the name of the Folders is there something that I can put
in my menu path?

This ;

***MENUGROUP=MyMenu

***POP1

**[&MyMenu]
[->&Annotation]
ID_Stamps [->&Issued Stamps]
ID_Issued For Review [<-&Issued For Review]^c^c-insert;C:/Company
Standards/AutoCAD Blocks/Stamps/Review;/;;;

[--]

THANKS!

Fred

 

Is the path in "" ?
like: "C:/Company Standards/AutoCAD Blocks/Stamps/Review.dwg"
or "C:\\Company Standards\\AutoCAD Blocks\\Stamps\\Review.dwg"
don't know if that would help?

 

Ya...you are probably right it is something in my path...
I tried your suggestions...Nope No luck.. its crapping out after the C:

I am getting....

Command: -insert
Enter block name or [?]: C://Company
Invalid block name.

and

Command: -insert
Enter block name or [?]: C:

Thansk for help!

Fred

***MENUGROUP=MyMenu

***POP1

**[&MyMenu]
[->&Annotation]
ID_Stamps [->&Issued Stamps]
ID_Issued For Review [<-&Issued For Review]^c^c-insert;C:/Company
Standards/AutoCAD Blocks/Stamps/Review;/;;;

[--]

 

Well....you would really be making life easier if you renamed the path to:
companystandards

 

Try this "C:\\Company Standards\\AutoCAD Blocks\\Stamps\\Review.dwg"

Not this "C://Company Standards//AutoCAD Blocks//Stamps//Review.dwg"

 

Ya I hear ya....I know it would extremely easy...but unfortunately we have
IT people who's thinking are in Windows based stuff and honestly they never
heard of DOS and the underscores between names and such.......;-)

 

I tried it and no luck....I got

Command: -insert
Enter block name or [?]: C://Company
Invalid block name.

Thx for the help....

 

Hi

When i inserted your path in the menu and then run it....it says...

Command: -insert
Enter block name or [?]: C:



Fred

 

I should of put this in my last post...sorry...

So now my menu says

***MENUGROUP=MyMenu

***POP1

**[&MyMenu]
[->&Annotation]
ID_Stamps [->&Issued Stamps]
ID_Issued For Review [<-&Issued For Review]^c^c-insert;C:\\Company
Standards\\AutoCAD Blocks\\Stamps\\Review.dwg;/;;;

[--]
RESULT;

Command: -insert
Enter block name or [?]: C:

 

You need the ""
--
David Wishengrad
President & CTO
MillLister, Inc.
Software for measuring and stretching multiple 3D solids.
Http://Construction3D.com

 

Instead of:
]^c^c-insert;C:\\Company Standards\\AutoCAD Blocks\\Stamps\\Review.dwg;/;;;
Do:
^c^c(command "-insert" "c:/company standards/AutoCAD/Blocks/Stamps/Review" pause "" "" "");
Bob

 

Hi

Put what you said and after I run it; A "Substitute Block Name" dialog box
Pops-up and requests "The file you have chosen can not be used as a block
name..New Block name"

I tried both Typing in a new name and also leaving it blank ...still no
luck....

I did make sure the block does work....;-)

Thanks for the help......
***MENUGROUP=MyMenu

***POP1

**[&MyMenu]
[->&Annotation]
ID_Stamps [->&Issued Stamps]
ID_Issued For Review [<-&Issued For Review^c^c(command "-insert" "c:/company
standards/AutoCAD/Blocks/Stamps/Review" pause "" "" "");
[--]
A dialog pops up and says..... "

 

Where do i need the ""

thanks for the help

 

is there by any chance a block inside the file "c:/company
standards/AutoCAD/Blocks/Stamps/Review" that has the name "Review"???
If so you're trying to create a self-referencing block, maybe that's why the
name substitution came up?

 

Hi

I tried your comment again and It worked....it was actually kinda weird....I
rebooted my machine and selected the menu item and it worked...

hmmm go figure...

Thanks for the help MUCH appreciated....

Fred

 

Hi,

<snip>
The only thing wrong here are the missing quotes and the slash instead
of the backslash in the macro.

I just tested the following on my machine, it worked:

^C^C_-insert;"C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/ruul/Lokale
Einstellungen/Temp/test";\;;

so your entry should probably be
ID_Issued For Review [<-&Issued For Review]^c^c-insert;"C:/Company
Standards/AutoCAD Blocks/Stamps/Review";\;;;

hth
ruul

 

Got it

Thanks!