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With the old GeoTools splitting and giving birth to the new GeoTools and CADPower, there is one question that every one is asking - How to use GeoTools and CADPower on the same computer together?
In this post, we will explain how to do it in Bricscad.
First, install GeoTools for Bricscad and CADPower for Bricscad in the usual way into their own respective folders. At the end of the installation, you see a dialog box that pops up and asks you to do a small configuration step.
Follow the instructions and do as it says. If you want to know more about this step, you can also read one of my old blog posts titled How to Configure GeoTools For Bricscad?. Although it is an old post explaining about GeoTools, the process is exactly similar and valid for CADPower also.
You will need to add both the CADPower folder as well as GeoTools folder in the Support file search path under the Settings command -> Files section. Earlier, you were advised to move the folder to the top of the list. You must still do that and you will end up with GeoTools and CADPower folders as the top/first two folders in the list. Now, comes the catch. The starter file which fires CADPower or GeoTools is called on_doc_load.lsp and resides in the respective folder of each software.
For example, the on_doc_load.lsp file for CADPower looks like this:
(setvar "FILEDIA" 0)
(load "CADPower_EN_BC.des")
And the on_doc_load.lsp file for GeoTools looks like this:
(setvar "FILEDIA" 0)
(load "GeoTools_EN_BC.des")
To give you a little background, these statements are just a call to load the GeoTools or CADPower executable which is a .DES file as you can see.
Now, the problem is that your Bricscad can see only one on_doc_load.lsp per session and load it. Obviously, it "sees" and "reads" only the first on_doc_load.lsp file from the list, which is the top/first item in the folders list. And that could be the on_doc_load.lsp from the CADPower folder or the GeoTools folder, depending on which is at the top of the list. So, the second in the list on_doc_load.lsp never gets loaded and therefore only one of either CADPower or GeoTools is loaded.
The solution is very simple - simply copy the contents of both the files into one single on_doc_load.lsp and that file must reside in the folder which is mentioned first on the list.
In other words, your new on_doc_load.lsp must look something like this:
(setvar "FILEDIA" 0)
(load "GeoTools_EN_BC.des")
(setvar "FILEDIA" 0)
(load "CADPower_EN_BC.des")
This ensures that both the software get loaded and can be used alongside each other.
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