Recently, I found myself having 10-15 AutoCAD drawings open at the same time and wanted to close them all.
An easy way to do it is with two commands.
To do so, first you type SAVEALL at AutoCAD’s command line and all the open documents are saved. Secondly, the CLOSEALL command follows that will close all the open drawings.
But… I wanted something more automated. So I wrote a small script that combines those two commands into one that will automatically save and close all the drawings.
Here’s the script:
(defun c:SCALL ()
(command "SAVEALL")
(command "CLOSEALL")
(princ)
)That’s all. The file is named SCALL.lsp and the command to run it is also “scall” typed at the command line of AutoCAD.
If you want to know how to load an AutoLISP script in AutoCAD you can read this small article that teaches you step by step what you should do.
My work involves a lot of measurements in order to get my quantities off the drawings and make the estimations I need. For this work I only work with AutoCAD. I strongly believe that it is more than enough as it comes with lots of good and handy tools to do the job. Although, some things still “missing” or at least it cannot cover anyone’s demand for commands.