Hi,

I'm currently looking to migrate to Draftsight from Autocad and am trying to find equivalents of working routines and methods. In Autocad there is a variable ''projectname' that is defined by the user and saved in the drawing file. The same value can then be used to define specific search paths to external references for that drawing in the Tools/Options/Files/ProjectFilesSearchPath/projectname.

The variable allows you to quickly set up a drawing to find it's xrefs in a directory structure that is different to that of the drawings original author.

First advantage being you don't have to redefine the path for each individual xref within the drawing for it to work correctly. Second advantage it means you can edit the drawing save it and send it back to the author without having modified their specific local directory structure paths within the drawing.

The variable exists in full Autocad but does not exist in Autocad light

Typing projectname at the commandline in DraftSight returns LGCYPROJECTNAME and you can set a variable but there does not seem to be a corresponding area in File Locations Drawing support where you can create a specific set of paths for the 'projectname'