Reset UCS to World for multiple drawings

By Balaji Ramamoorthy

In this blog post we will look at a simple way to reset the UCS to World for large number of drawings by batch processing drawings from a folder using AccoreConsole.exe

Here is the main batch file to iterate drawings in a folder :

 ::Make changes to these parameters as per requirement

 SET ACCOREEXEPATH="C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\AutoCAD 2015\\accoreconsole.exe" 

 SET DWGINDIR="C:\\Temp\\IN" 

 echo off

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 IF NOT EXIST %DWGINDIR% MD %DWGINDIR%

 cls

 SET UCSRESETBATFILEPATH="%~dp0" 

 set UCSRESETBATFILEPATH=%UCSRESETBATFILEPATH:~1,-1%ResetUCS.bat

 for  /f "delims="  %%a IN ( ) do  call "%UCSRESETBATFILEPATH%"  %ACCOREEXEPATH% %DWGINDIR% "%%a" 

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 :End

Here is the batch file that invokes AccoreConsole.exe :

 SET ACCOREEXEPATH=%1

 IF NOT EXIST "%ACCOREEXEPATH%"  goto  ACCOREEXENOTFOUND

 SET DWGINPATH=%2

 SET DWGFILENAME=%3

 set DWGFILENAME=%DWGFILENAME:~1,-1%

 set DWGINPATH=%DWGINPATH:~1,-1%\\%DWGFILENAME%

 :: Get the script file path

 SET SCRIPTFILEPATH="%~dp0" 

 set SCRIPTFILEPATH=%SCRIPTFILEPATH:~1,-1%ResetUCS.scr

 ::Reset the UCS to World

 %ACCOREEXEPATH% /i "%DWGINPATH%"  /s "%SCRIPTFILEPATH%"  /l en-US

 goto  END

 :ACCOREEXENOTFOUND

 echo %ACCOREEXEPATH%

 echo "Accoreconsole.exe path is incorrect." 

 goto  END

 :DRAWINGNOTFOUND

 echo %DWGINPATH%

 echo "Drawing file not found." 

 goto  END

 :END

Here is the AutoCAD Script file to reset the UCS which is only a few lines :

;Script begins here

UCS

SAVE

;Script ends here

Here are files for download. To try this, copy all the files to C:\Temp and place the drawings that you want to process under C:\Temp\IN folder

Download ResetUCSToWorld