Menu Item - With spaces

[Fred]

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

 

[Mark Propst]

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?

 

[Fred]

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;/;;;

[--]

 

[Walt Engle]

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

 

[GIF]

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

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

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;/;;;

[--]

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?

has

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[Fred]

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.......;-)

 

[Fred]

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

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

Thx for the help....

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

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

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;/;;;

[--]

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?

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

 

[Fred]

Hi

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

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

Fred

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

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

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;/;;;

[--]

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?

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

 

[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:

 

[Dave]

You need the ""

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:

 

[ECCAD]

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

 

[Fred]

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..... "

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

 

[Fred]

Where do i need the ""

thanks for the help

You need the ""

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:

 

[Mark Propst]

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?

 

[Fred]

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

 

[ruul morawetz]

Hi,

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

<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

 

[Fred]

Got it

Thanks!

Hi,

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

<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