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When working with long polylines and splines, you may find it desirable to have persistent grips to help with visibility and printing. This LISP routine will create “point” entities at ...  Read more

Tip#: 4504
Author: Brian Bennett
Rename File To: PRINTGRIPS.lsp
Published on: 13-Jul-2015
Downloads: 179
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

CAD Tip No. 4402, also from Kent Cooper, converts 3D faces to lines in AutoCAD. This routine is similar, except it co...  Read more

Tip#: 4445
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: 3DFacesTo3DPolylines.lsp
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 3784
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Michael Partenheimer gives us a slick way to change xrefs in AutoCAD without losing your layer settings. First off, read the included TXT file that describes the process in detail....  Read more

Tip#: 4418
Author: Michael Partenheimer
Rename File To: UpXr/,UpXr/UpXr.lsp,UpXr/UpXr.txt
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 2008
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper created this AutoCAD function in response to a question in the Autodesk customization forums. It's meant to be used or called from other LISP code with two argument...  Read more

Tip#: 4417
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: SigFig.lsp
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 165
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

This tip from frequent contributor Kent Cooper is used to draw polynomial functions on the current layer in AutoCAD. The routine will draw the curve defined by a polynomial functio...  Read more

Tip#: 4416
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: PolynomialFunction.lsp
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 1578
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Kent Cooper created this routine in response to a question in the Autodesk customization forums; the user wanted to trim AutoCAD objects where the cutting edge turned out to be 3D ...  Read more

Tip#: 4402
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: 3DFacesToLines.lsp
Published on: 23-Nov-2014
Downloads: 1317
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

This routine from Jay Thomas is an excellent example of combining LISP code with a dialog box with graphics. Its purpose is to draw railing elevations in AutoCAD.

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Tip#: 4401
Author: Jay Thomas
Rename File To: RailElevation/,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.dcl,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.lsp,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.slb,RailElevation/Rail_Elev.txt
Published on: 23-Nov-2014
Downloads: 337
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

If you have a startup routine that sets certain LISP variables, and your fields point to these variables, it's possible that your fields won't get updated when you think they should.

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Tip#: 4380
Author: Andrea Andreetti
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 20-Oct-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated
Tip#: 4328
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextTrim.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 395
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users

This routine is an alternate to “Label Entity with Break,” also from Kent Cooper. That tip inserts a text string into an entity by physically breaking the entity. This ...  Read more

Tip#: 4329
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: LabelTextMask.LSP
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 341
Rating:
5
  Rated by 1 users