Click Manage tab Customization panel User Interface. Find In the Customize tab, Customizations In pane, right-click the LISP Files node. Click Load LISP. In the Load LISP Files dialog box, browse to and select the AutoLISP file you want to load. Only files with the.lsp extension can be selected. Tip: Even though only files with the.lsp extension can be selected, you can create a LSP file. Josh explains what LISP is, the differences between AutoLISP and Visual LISP, how to write it, as well as how to create objects and store information that you can use later. Plus, throughout the course, he shares coding best practices that can help you work efficiently with this functional language. AutoLISP is an interpretive language, so it can be stored in an ASCII text file, loaded, and then executed directly within AutoCAD. AutoLISP files typically have an.lsp file extension, but they can also have the.mnl file extension. Both LSP and MNL files can be edited with a text editor, such as Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac OS. The LISP code has to be loaded into AutoCAD. You can load ('install') a LSP, VLX or FAS file containing an add-on application or utility into AutoCAD just by mouse-dragging it from Windows Explorer (or other file manager) to the AutoCAD window. Only after you load the application into the running session (and current drawing), the functions and commands programmed in the specific application will become.
- Click Manage tab Customization panel User Interface. Find
- In the Customize tab, Customizations In <file name> pane, right-click the LISP Files node. Click Load LISP.
- In the Load LISP Files dialog box, browse to and select the AutoLISP file you want to load. Only files with the .lsp extension can be selected. Tip: Even though only files with the .lsp extension can be selected, you can create a LSP file that loads other types of custom program files. Use the NETLOAD, VBALOAD, or ARX commands to load other types of custom program files. You can also use the AutoLISP functions arxload and vl-vbaload.
- Click Open.
- Click Apply.
The acad.lsp file can contain AutoLISP code for one or more routines, or just a series of load function calls. The latter method is preferable, because modification is easier. If you save the following code as an acad.lsp file, the files mysessionapp1.lsp, databasesynch.lsp, and drawingmanager.lsp are loaded every time you start AutoCAD.
Parent topic:About Loading an AutoLISP File with a CUIx File
Related Concepts
- [Instructor] So far, we've been working…with our LISP routines,…and the functions that we've written inside…our Visual LISP IDE,…or Integrated Development Editor.…We've even loaded the LISP functions from the IDE,…right into the current drawing.…But how do we load any LISP files we've written…with all the functions found within,…outside of the IDE?…How do we load them into the drawing?…Well, if we go to the Managed ribbon,…in the Applications panel,…we can choose Load Application.…We can also just type at the Command line, App Load.…
App Load.…Now if we identify the LISP file,…we can select the file, and choose Load.…Now, within the latest versions of AutoCAD,…there's a security feature.…It makes sure that any applications or customization…that's being loaded in,…that the user's aware of it.…Now we can choose to always load the file,…load just once, or don't load at all.…We're going to choose just load once.…It's going to go ahead and tell us it's successfully loaded.…
Automatically Load Lisp Autocad
We close, and everything's good.…Now, all the functions within that file are available to us.…