December's Lisp of the Month

TRY
WATSON5
DEMO

Is an artificially intelligent referencing agent for AutoCAD.

Find detail drawings by text and attribute content.

Web Site: http://geocities.com/watsonlisp/

Writing statements declared by a period{.} to the user dialog file[user.wwd];
reading text files declared by typing {readd};
looking at drawings declared by typing {lookd};
looking at drawings in a batch declared by typing {lookdb};
looking at graphics declared by typing {lookg};
looking at media declared by typing {lookm}; and
looking at html files declared by typing {looki},

He learns what the user teaches.

written by Aaron J. Strom

November's Lisp of the Month

It is an AutoLISP program (FAS) I wrote for drawing compression and extension springs. The main feature of this over other programs is that it draws the exact profile of the 3 dimensional curve as projected onto 2 dimensions, rather than using circles and lines to draw a schematic representation.

written by Douglas Lerner

October's Lisp of the Month

Purpose: Displays the global angle and bevel expressed as inches in 12 for a selected LINE, or POLYLINE or LWPOLYLINE segment. This routine was written primarily for steel detailers, so the bevel is always expressed as less than or = 12 in 12.

written by Herman Mayfarth of
Corona, CA

September's Lisp of the Month

Shadow Box routine that ONLY works on Mtext entities is Free from CADDee. Nice installation program and setup. Warning: this routine doesn't work correctly if you have your UCS rotated. Set it back to World before running the routine.

written by Jim Dee of 

August's Lisp of the Month

2 Commands are included in this 1 file.

SCB: scales each member of block, text, mtext set by its own insertion point.
ROB: rotates each member of block, text, mtext set by its own insertion point.

written by Vaidas Guogis
Vilnius, Lithuania

July's Lisp of the Month

English
Version

Afitec's auditing tool for your AutoCAD 2002 drawings is now available as freeware.

This LISP program checks the current drawing and creates an HTML report. System variables are checked as well as a several other elements in the drawing, like symbol tables and layer 0 usage. About one hundred parameters are checked, some are local parameters, others registry settings. In no circumstances your drawing is modified! Any oddity is reported, the last section of the report gives advices according to certain parameters on the best way to organize your drawings.

Audit DWG page: http://www.afitec.com/Support/audit_dwg.php

written by Patrick Emin
Lyon, Rhone, France

June's Lisp of the Month

All of my misc. civil routines in one dialog box interface.

FILES REQUIRED WITH PROGRAM : MCIV.DCL BARSCALE.DWG BARSCALM.DWG BARSCALO.DWG WBWP.DWG

written by Russ Steffy
Bethlehem, PA

May's Lisp of the Month

A general text editing dialog box lisp routine. Allows you to add special characters just by checking the appropriate box. Also added is a layer pull down list and color picker.

written by T. Senthil Murugan
Tamilnadu, India
www.senmur.com

April's Lisp of the Month

I asked him why he would even want to do this. His answer is valid for his needs. He wrote:

"I'll answer your question about why stretch an associative dimension? I'm a Steel Detailer which means I create drawings for a fabricator to cut weld and drill all the steel members in a building. Most of my detail drawings require an exaggerated horizontal scale to clearly show what I need done.

see (http://steelware.com/images/example2.gif) for an example of a typical detail drawing.

So first I draw everything to scale and dimension it I then run OW and stretch my picture so it will fit on a 24x36 sheet at a scale of 1:12. If you think stretching dimensions is bad you should see some of the thoroughly exploded drawings that other detailers in my office produce."

written by Andy Leisk E-mail
Surrey, B.C., Canada

March's Lisp of the Month

Blind tapping made easy with standard drill points and tap tapers.

Only has english unc sizes and the largest pitch available for metric sizes.

Add new sizes to the lists in defun mk_tplst observing positions in each string carefully.

written by Russ Steffy
Bethlehem, PA

February's Lisp of the Month

ESP.Lsp

Equal SPace entities - Needs two entities of the same type and the entities must have an insert point, a start point, or a group code 10 location point. See ESP.Txt for more details.

written by Russ Steffy
Bethlehem, PA

January's Lisp of the Month

Function to list the Square Feet, Square Yards, Acres, and Hectares by the selection of a polyline in Architectural, Decimal, and Metric Units by using an Alert Dialog Box.

"I am often asked to calculate area's in square feet, Acres and Hectares. The problem I have is that all my drawings are in metric (millimeters). I always end up finding the square millimeters of the area and working out the rest by calculation. Is there a way of getting AutoCAD (We are running A2K & A2KLT) to do this for me. I have tried changing the units to Architectural (inches) in the Format Units menu, but all this dose is convert every millimeter to 1 inch leaving me with a massive error. i.e.: 1mm = 1 inch when it should be reading 25.4mm = 1 inch."

requested by Pete Newman, Dover, England
modified by Jeff Tippit