AutoCAD dwg Not initialized

Layout Not initialized will fail plot and publish

There is a change in AutoCAD done by Autodesk a few years ago that causes that we can’t publish drawings from AutoCAD where the layout is not initialized. This is also true if you use Autodesk’s own methods to publish.

This can be caused by:

• creating brand new drawings from default AutoCAD templates, which contain uninitialized Layout1 and Layout2

• using drawings from older versions of AutoCAD or from third-party applications

You can check for this error if you open the drawing in the publish command in AutoCAD

When using Sovelia Vault we can add the lisp command to Automatically run the layout initialization by lisp.

Use the acaddoc.lsp file Supplied (https://supportfiles.symetri.com/s/s3oCxreScYz85ms)

An acaddoc.lsp file runs each time a drawing is opened at the jobprocessor.

Example, use addoc.lisp to run layout initializing every time a file is opened.

- Place the acaddoc.lsp file in the support folder : "C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\R24.3\enu\support"

- Create a new drawing and select "Always Load"

To avoid this message :

If you trust this executable file, we recommend that you do one of the following:

• Add the folder containing the executable file to the list of trusted folders.

• Move this executable file to an appropriate trusted folder.

• Set the SECURELOAD system variable to 0