Decrypt FAS Files?
I know this is a controversial topic, so let me clear the air right up front. This article is NOT a 'how-to' for decrypting or decompiling FAS files. This topic seems to come up every now and then....
View ArticleEntmake HATCH entity
After working on some autolisp code where I needed to create several HATCH entities, I figured that using (entmake) to do the job would be much faster than pushing the command line version of the HATCH...
View ArticleEntmake HATCH entity - Part 2
Regarding yesterday's post....what I failed to cover with any detail was the fact that the example code posted in the CADTutor forum post was strictly for a closed area defined by four lines. Of course...
View ArticleAccessing Civil 3D objects with autolisp
I have been working with the Civil 3D 2010 API in visual lisp recently, and I thought I would share an example of working with an alignment object. This example has plenty of comments, but basically it...
View ArticleGetting a list of polyline vertices using LISP
Here is one way to generate a list of polyline vertices using lisp. This function requires one argument, a polyline entity. The polyline can be the old style POLYLINE entity (2D or 3D), or it can be an...
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Afralisp 2.0
If you have been around AutoCAD for a while and have done any Autolisp or VBA programming, you have probably run across a great Autolisp and VBA site with tutorials and code examples named AfraLisp....
View ArticleGet your name in lights
Ok, not exactly in lights, but in print! Seriously, do you have a time saving tip, technique, or code that you would like to share? Submit it to Cadalyst and have it published in Tips and Tools Weekly...
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Changing sheet to display in PDF Underlay
When you attach a multi-page PDF file as a reference in AutoCAD, you can choose which sheet to display (see below). But what if you want to change that reference to a different sheet in the PDF file,...
View ArticlePlacing multi-sheet PDFs into AutoCAD, semi-automatically
With regard to last week's post on modifying the PDF sheet display, I've taken another approach and come up with the following lisp code that will allow you to import some or all of the sheets of a...
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Create a table style in AutoCAD using autolisp
A few years ago, we posted some info and sample code on how to create a table in AutoCAD using autolisp. That works OK, but what if you want to define a particular table style first? I ran across this...
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