I'm trying to sheath/unsheathe the player's weapon under certain circumstances. So far I've succeeded using the EquipItem/UnequipItem function, however this creates the inconvenience of having to enter the menu and re-equip the weapon.
Is there a way to do this without actually equipping it.

If you use OBSE you can use TapControl 8 to make the player press the "ready weapon" button. You can also try player.setalert 1 and player.setalert 0 though I'm not sure if this function works on the player.

Thank you!

TapControl works stupendously